We examine the use of authorship information in information retrieval for closed communities by extracting expert rankings for queries. We demonstrate that these rankings can be us...
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
This paper integrates five linguistic resources, including Cilin, a Chinese-English dictionary, ASBC corpus, SemCor, and WordNet, to construct a Chinese-English WordNet. The resul...
The Cambridge University Multimedia Document Retrieval Demo System is a web based application that allows the user to query a database of automatically generated transcripts of ra...
A. Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...