Background and aim: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), as utilized by European citizens, represents a variety of different medical systems and therapies based on the knowledge, skills and practices derived from theories, philosophies and experiences used to maintain and improve health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, relieve or treat physical and mental illnesses. The purpose of the...

1 Faculty of Information Technology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Práter u. 50/A, 1083 Budapest, Hungary 2Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13-17. , 1111 Budapest, Hungary 3 Infobionic and Neurobiological Plasticity Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pázmány University and Semmelweis University, Práter u. 50/A, 1083 Budap...

We describe our official runs for the ad hoc monolingual task in Hungarian for CLEF 2005. We conducted experiments with four stemmers of varying impact. The experiments indicate that stemmers focusing on noun inflection are as effective as more broadly oriented stemmers, and that extensive stemming is especially beneficial for Hungarian monolingual retrieval.

T. Janda3, W. Wiessnerb, E. Páldic, D. Mendeb, and S. Demeter3 a Institute o f Plant Physiology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy o f Sciences, P.O.B. 521, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary b Pflanzenphysiologisches Institut der Universität Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-W -3400 Göttingen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland c Agricultural Research Institute o f the Hungarian Academy o f Sciences, H-...

This paper presents a complete outline of the results of the Hungarian WordNet (HuWN) project: the construction process of the general vocabulary Hungarian WordNet ontology, its validation and evaluation, the construction of a domain ontology of financial terms built on top of the general ontology, and two practical applications demonstrating the utilization of the ontology.

We describe our official runs for the ad hoc monolingual task in Hungarian for CLEF 2005. We conducted experiments with four stemmers of varying impact. The experiments indicate that stemmers focusing on noun inflection are as effective as more broadly oriented stemmers, and that extensive stemming is especially beneficial for Hungarian monolingual retrieval.

1Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 102, Hungary 2Szabolcs-Sz.-B. County Goverment Office of Plant and Soil Conservation Board H-4400 Nyíregyháza, Kótaji út 33, Hungary 3Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1083 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary *Corresponding author’s e-mail: tobias.istvan@agr...

In this report we characterize all context-free grammars with not more than three nonterminals generating only primitive words. 1This work was supported by the German-Hungarian Research Project 102 of OMFB ( Hungarian Research Foundation ) and Project X 233.6 of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe