Scalable information retrieval systems are crucial to meeting the growing volumes of data. We describe work done to facilitate scalability by reducing duplication, providing integration with structured data, and supporting integration and question answering via an intranet mediator. All examples given are taken directly from prior and on-going efforts in the IIT Information Retrieval Laboratory...

Some IR models make use of an implication to match a document d and a query q, computing either “q implies d” (e.g. in fuzzy inclusion models) or, the other way, “d implies q” (e.g. in logical IR models). This paper analyzes, from a theoretical point of view, the IR models using both approaches. Even if the above notations seem to be opposite, it is shown that they sometimes come from different...

In this work, we will explore different approaches used in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems. Mainly, CLIR systems which use statistical machine translation (SMT) systems to translate queries into collection language. This will include using SMT systems as a black box or as a white box, also the SMT systems that are tuned towards better CLIR performance. After that, we will pre...

One of the challenges of modern information retrieval is to adequately evaluate Information Retrieval System (IRS) in order to estimate future performance in a specified application domain. Since there are many algorithms in literature the decision to select one for usage depends mostly on the evaluation of the systems’ performance in the domain. This paper presents how visual and scalar evalua...

Users interact with the Internet in dynamic environments that require the IR system to be context aware. Modern IR systems take advantage of user location, browsing history or previous interaction patterns, but a significant number of contextual factors that impact the user information retrieval process are not yet available. Parameters like the emotional state of the user and user domain exper...

Neste artigo é proposta uma extensa metodologia para avaliar a recuperação da informação interativa. A proposta baseia-se em princípios fundamentais apresentados na literatura de avaliação para definir os objetivos do sistema ou ferramenta a ser avaliado, e inferir as medidas e os critérios de sucesso na consecução dos objetivos. Propõe-se que, ao avaliar uma ferramenta de pesquisa, seja analis...