The aim of this project is the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equivalents in a second, historically related, language, so that documents in the sec...
Serendipity occurs when one finds an interesting discovery while searching for something else. In digital libraries, recommendation engines are particularly well-suited for seren...
Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
We report on the results of a series of experiments with a prototype text retrieval system which uses relatively advanced natural language processing techniques in order to enhanc...