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A Basic Language Resource Kit for Persian

Persian with its about 100,000,000 speakers in the world belongs to the group of languages with less developed linguistically annotated resources and tools. The few existing resources and tools are neither open source nor freely available. Thus, our goal is to develop open source resources such as corpora and treebanks, and tools for data-driven linguistic analysis of Persian. We do this by exp...

SCAI TREC-8 Experiments

This working note reports our experiences with TREC-8 on four tracks: Ad Hoc, Filtering, Web, and QA. The Ad Hoc retrieval engine, SCAIR, has been used for the Web and QA experiments, and the ltering experiments were based on it's own engine. As a second entry to TREC, we focused this year on exploring possibilities of applying machine learning techniques to TREC tasks. The Ad Hoc track employe...

ACSys TREC-8 Experiments

Experiments relating to TREC-8 Ad Hoc, Web Track (Large and Small) and Query Track tasks are described and results reported. Due to time constraints, only minimal e ort was put into Ad Hoc and Query Track participation. In the Web Track, Google-style PageRanks were calculated for all 18.5 million pages in the VLC2 collection and for the 0.25 million pages in the WT2g collection. Various combina...

ACSys TREC-7 Experiments

Experiments relating to TREC-7 Ad Hoc, HP and VLC tasks are described and results reported. Minor re nements of last year's Ad Hoc methods do not appear to have resulted in worthwile improvements in performance. However, larger bene ts were gained from automatic feedback than last year and concept scoring was very bene cial in the Manual Ad Hoc category. In the Automatic Ad Hoc category title-o...

Melbourne TREC-9 Experiments