This paper presents Wolverhampton University's participation in the WiQA competition. The method chosen for this task combines a high precision, but low recall information re...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
The classical Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) forms the theoretical basis for probabilistic Information Retrieval (IR) models, which are dominating IR theory since about 20 ye...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...