Nowadays, searching information in the web or in any kind of document collection has become one of the most frequent activities. However, user queries can be formulated in a way th...
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have been studied as a method of capturing user intent and improving retrieval effectiveness. The evaluation of these techniques...
This year, we have participated on Ad-Hoc Robust Multilingual track with the aim to evaluate two issues of CLIR systems. Firstly, this paper describes the method followed for quer...
This paper compares the utilization of ConceptNet and WordNet in query expansion. Spreading activation selects candidate terms for query expansion from these two resources. Three m...
We describe cross language retrieval experiments using Amharic queries and English language document collection from our participation in the bilingual ad hoc track at the CLEF 20...