Abstract. This paper describes a new technique for the direct translation of character n-grams for use in Cross-Language Information Retrieval systems. This solution avoids the nee...
Learning to rank represents a category of effective ranking methods for information retrieval. While the primary concern of existing research has been accuracy, learning efficien...
Shuaiqiang Wang, Byron J. Gao, Ke Wang, Hady Wiraw...
Abstract. Because the notion of context is multi-disciplinary [17], it encompasses lots of issues in Information Retrieval. In this paper, we define the context as the information ...
Abstract. The processing steps required for geographic information retrieval include many steps that are common to all forms of information retrieval, e.g. stopword filtering, ste...
When a client interacts with an expert, e.g. a doctor, it falls upon the expert to ask questions that steer the process towards fulfilling the client's needs. This is most ef...