In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...
We consider the application of machine learning techniques for sequence modeling to Information Retrieval (IR) and surface Information Extraction (IE) tasks. We introduce a generi...
Massih-Reza Amini, Hugo Zaragoza, Patrick Gallinar...
RankSVM (Herbrich et al, 2000; Joachims, 2002) is a pairwise method for designing ranking models. SVMLight is the only publicly available software for RankSVM. It is slow and, due ...
Abstract The explosion of content in distributed information retrieval (IR) systems requires new mechanisms to attain timely and accurate retrieval of unstructured text. In this pa...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...