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Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web Retrieval

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Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval (CLEF 2006)

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We examine the effectiveness on the multilingual WebCLEF 2006 test set of light-weight methods that have proved successful in other web retrieval settings: combinations of document representations on the one hand and query reformulation techniques on the other.

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  1. ISLA, University of Amsterdam,  

    Krisztian Balog & Maarten de Rijke

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Carol Peters Paul Clough Fredric C. Gey Jussi Karlgren Bernardo Magnini Douglas W. Oard Maarten de Rijke Maximilian Stempfhuber

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Balog, K., de Rijke, M. (2007). Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web Retrieval. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_104

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