The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
MNIS-TextWise Labs participated in the TREC-9 Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. The focus of our research for this participation has been on rapidly adding Chine...
Miguel E. Ruiz, Steve Rowe, Maurice Forrester, Par...
Abstract. The problem of nding documents that are written in a language that the searcher cannot read is perhaps the most challenging application of Cross-Language Information Retr...
In this paper we a propose an extended methodology for laboratory based Information Retrieval evaluation under incomplete relevance assessments. This new protocol aims to identify ...
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...