First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1)

First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1)

Author: D. K. Harman

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1995-10

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0788125214

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Held in Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 4-6, 1992. Evaluates new technologies in information retrieval. Numerous graphs, tables and charts.


Overview of the Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3)

Overview of the Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3)

Author: Donna K. Harman

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0788129457

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Held in Gaithersburg, MD, August November 2-4, 1994. The conference was co-sponsored by the National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and was attended by 150 people involved in the 32 participating groups. Evaluates new technologies in text retrieval. Includes 34 papers: indexing structures, fragmentation schemes, probabilistic retrieval, latent semantic indexing, interactive document retrieval, and much more. Numerous graphs, tables and charts.


Natural Language Information Retrieval

Natural Language Information Retrieval

Author: T. Strzalkowski

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9401723885

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The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This hitherto largely academic discipline has found itself at the center of an information revolution ushered in by the Internet age, as demand for human-computer communication and informa tion access has exploded. Emerging applications in computer-assisted infor mation production and dissemination, automated understanding of news, understanding of spoken language, and processing of foreign languages have given impetus to research that resulted in a new generation of robust tools, systems, and commercial products. Well-positioned government research funding, particularly in the U. S. , has helped to advance the state-of-the art at an unprecedented pace, in no small measure thanks to the rigorous 1 evaluations. This volume focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing in In formation Retrieval (IR), an area of science and technology that deals with cataloging, categorization, classification, and search of large amounts of information, particularly in textual form. An outcome of an information retrieval process is usually a set of documents containing information on a given topic, and may consist of newspaper-like articles, memos, reports of any kind, entire books, as well as annotated image and sound files. Since we assume that the information is primarily encoded as text, IR is also a natural language processing problem: in order to decide if a document is relevant to a given information need, one needs to be able to understand its content.


Advances in Information Retrieval

Advances in Information Retrieval

Author: W. Bruce Croft

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0306470195

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The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was formed in the Computer Science Department ofthe University ofMassachusetts, Amherst in 1992. The core support for the Center came from a National Science Foun- tion State/Industry/University Cooperative Research Center(S/IUCRC) grant, although there had been a sizeable information retrieval (IR) research group for over 10 years prior to that grant. Thebasic goal ofthese Centers is to combine basic research, applied research, and technology transfer. The CIIR has been successful in each of these areas, in that it has produced over 270 research papers, has been involved in many successful government and industry collaborations, and has had a significant role in high-visibility Internet sites and start-ups. As a result of these efforts, the CIIR has become known internationally as one of the leading research groups in the area of information retrieval. The CIIR focuses on research that results in more effective and efficient access and discovery in large, heterogeneous, distributed, text and multimedia databases. The scope of the work that is done in the CIIR is broad and goes significantly beyond “traditional” areas of information retrieval such as retrieval models, cross-lingual search, and automatic query expansion. The research includes both low-level systems issues such as the design of protocols and architectures for distributed search, as well as more human-centered topics such as user interface design, visualization and data mining with text, and multimedia retrieval.


Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Author: Christos Nikolaou

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 354049653X

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Digital Libraries are complex and advanced forms of information systems which extend and augment their physical counterparts by amplifying existing resources and services and enabling development of new kinds of human problem solving and expression. Their complexity arises from the data-rich domain of discourse as well as from extended demands for multi-disciplinary input, involving distributed systems architectures, structured digital documents, collaboration support, human-computer interaction, information filtering, etc. In addition to the broad range of technical issues, ethics and intellectual property rights add to the complication that is normally associated with the development, maintenance, and use of Digital Libraries. The Second European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL’98) builds upon the success of the first of this series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held last year in Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997. This series of conferences is partially funded by the TMR Programme of the European Commission and is actively supported and promoted by the European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). The aim is to bring together the different communities involved in the development of Digital Libraries, to review progress and to discuss strategies, research and technological development (RTD) issues, as well as specific topics related to the European context. These communities include professionals from universities, research centres, industry, government agencies, public libraries, etc.


Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems

Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems

Author: Laila Dybkjær

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781402058158

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In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology. This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.


Readings in Information Retrieval

Readings in Information Retrieval

Author: Karen Sparck Jones

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 9781558604544

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This compilation of original papers on information retrieval presents an overview, covering both general theory and specific methods, of the development and current status of information retrieval systems. Each chapter contains several papers carefully chosen to represent substantive research work that has been carried out in that area, each is preceded by an introductory overview and followed by supported references for further reading.


Advances in Information Retrieval

Advances in Information Retrieval

Author: Allan Hanbury

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-16

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 331916354X

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in March/April 2015. The 44 full papers, 41 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented together with 3 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 305 submissions. The focus of the papers were on following topics: aggregated search and diversity, classification, cross-lingual and discourse, efficiency, evaluation, event mining and summarisation, information extraction, recommender systems, semantic and graph-based models, sentiment and opinion, social media, specific search tasks, temporal models and features, topic and document models, user behavior and reproducible IR.