Sentence Clustering is often used as a first step in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) to find redundant information. All the same there is no gold standard available. This paper...
We describe a mechanism for the generation of lexical paraphrases of queries posed to an Internet resource. These paraphrases are generated using WordNet and part-of-speech inform...
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Port...
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our objective was to verify whether our combined query translation approach would work well with new requests and new...
The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatical...