The web contains a wealth of product reviews, but sifting through them is a daunting task. Ideally, an opinion mining tool would process a set of search results for a given item, ...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
A research prototype is presented for semantic indexing and retrieval in Information Retrieval. The prototype is motivated by a desire to provide a more efficient and effective in...
In order to search corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most efficient approach is to translate the query submitted into the required language(s). To achieve...
The TREC 2004 Terabyte Track evaluated information retrieval in largescale text collections, using a set of 25 million documents (426 GB). This paper gives an overview of our expe...