In this study we will discuss our cross language text retrieval (CLIR) experiments of Persian ad hoc track at CLEF 2008. Two teams from University of Tehran were involved in cross...
The use of domain-specific metadata (subject keywords) is tested for monolingual and bilingual retrieval on the GIRT social science collection. A new technique, Entry Vocabulary Mo...
Pattern-based machine translation systems can be easily customized by adding new patterns. To gain full profits from this character, input of patterns should be both expressive an...
This paper describes the procedure adopted by the three co-ordinators of the CLEF 2003 question answering track (ITC-irst, UNED and ILLC) to create the question set for the monoli...
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...