The Internet and corporate intranets provide far more information than anybody can absorb. People use search engines to find the information they require. However, these systems t...
Abstract. For our third participation in the CLEF evaluation campaign, our objective for both multilingual tracks is to propose a new merging strategy that does not require a train...
Abstract. After participating in last year's CLEF IP (2009) evaluation benchmark, our scores were rather low. The CLEF IP 2010 PAC task enabled us to correct some experiments ...
Wouter Alink, Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vrie...
Word prediction performed by language models has an important role in many tasks as e.g. word sense disambiguation, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, query spelling an...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...