Automatic Document Collection

Collection-Independent Document-Centric Impacts

An information retrieval system employs a similarity heuristic to estimate the probability that documents and queries match each other. The heuristic is usually formulated in the context of a collection, so that the relationship between each document and the collection that contains it affects the scoring used to provide the ranked set of answers in response to a query. In this paper we continu...

A study on automatic creation of a comparable document collection in cross-language information retrieval

We present a new method for creating a comparable document collection from two document collections in different languages. The best query keys were extracted from a Finnish source collection (articles of the newspaper Aamulehti) with the relative average term frequency (RATF) formula. The keys were translated into English with a dictionary-based query translation program. The resulting lists o...

Automatic Spoken Document Retrieval

Automatic Document Quality Control

This paper focuses on automatically improving the readability of documents. We explore mechanisms relating to content control that could be used (i) by authors to improve the quality and consistency of the language used in authoring; and (ii) to find a means to demonstrate this to readers. To achieve this, we implemented and evaluated a number of software components, including those of the Univ...

Document Retrieval, Automatic

Document Retrieval is the computerized process of producing a relevance ranked list of documents in response to an inquirer’s request by comparing their request to an automatically produced index of the documents in the system. Everyone uses such systems today in the form of web-based search engines. While evolving from a fairly small discipline in the 1940s, to a large, profitable industry tod...