The TREC-2001 Web track evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on the "aboutness" based approach in text retrieval. In the web ad hoc t...
In this paper, we identify factors that affect machine translation (MT) of a source query for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and empirically evaluate the effect of ps...
Yan Qu, Alla N. Eilerman, Hongming Jin, David A. E...
This paper examines the estimation of global term weights (such as IDF) in information retrieval scenarios where a global view on the collection is not available. In particular, t...
This paper describes/represents an approach to the design of an information retrieval of providing an search of users. The Next generation of information systems will rely on coll...
We will report on one of the two tasks in the IREX (Information Retrieval and Extraction Exercise) project, an evaluation-based project for Information Retrieval and Information E...