We present four approaches to the Amharic - French bilingual track at CLEF 2005. All experiments use a dictionary based approach to translate the Amharic queries into French Bags-...
Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...
In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
The retrieval of similar documents in the Web from a given document is different in many aspects from information retrieval based on queries generated by regular search engine use...
Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebasti&a...
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...