Asian Information Retrieval Symposium 2006
http://www.airs2006.org
Paper submission deadline April 17, 2006.
Objective
study of methods to improve monolingual and cross
language access of English and Chinese textual data
Research
- to improve effectiveness of ad-hoc retrieval via
web enrichment, heuristics, models
- to predict and improve effectiveness of weak queries
- study of cross language information retrieval
including pivot bilingual IR; improve
effectiveness via web entity translation
- study of cross language question answering methodologies
Development
- CHINET: a system for English-Chinese named entity
translation, cross language name finding,
and name extraction from Chinese texts
(
http://xpkk.cs.qc.edu:8080/chinet/)
- PIRCS: a multilingual IR system based on an extension
of the probabilistic model, supporting non-binary
data, query learning and expansion in the style
of a neural network