The effect of named entities on effectiveness in cross-language information retrieval evaluation

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1059-1064

  Mandl, Thomas ^a   Womser Hacker, Christa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF); Evaluation issues; Named entities; Query features; Test collections

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

CROSS LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM (CLEF); EVALUATION ISSUES; NAMED ENTITIES; TEST COLLECTIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33644518980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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