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Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Languages

Second and Third Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval, FIRE 2010 and FIRE 2011, held in Gandhinagar, India, February 19-20, and in Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011

  • Second and Third Workshop on Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Languages, FIRE 2010 and 2011

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7536)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. FIRE 2011

    1. Overview of FIRE 2011

      • Sauparna Palchowdhury, Prasenjit Majumder, Dipasree Pal, Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Mandar Mitra
      Pages 1-12
  3. Adhoc Track

    1. Query Expansion Based on Equi-Width and Equi-Frequency Partition

      • Rekha Vaidyanathan, Sujoy Das, Namita Srivastava
      Pages 13-22
    2. Ad Hoc Retrieval with Marathi Language

      • Mitra Akasereh, Jacques Savoy
      Pages 23-37
    3. Frequent Case Generation in Ad Hoc Retrieval of Three Indian Languages – Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi

      • Jiaul H. Paik, Kimmo Kettunen, Dipasree Pal, Kalervo Järvelin
      Pages 38-50
  4. CLiTR - Cross Lingual Text Reuse Track

    1. PAN@FIRE: Overview of the Cross-Language !ndian Text Re-Use Detection Competition

      • Alberto Barròn-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Paul Clough, Mark Stevenson
      Pages 59-70
    2. Mapping Hindi-English Text Re-use Document Pairs

      • Parth Gupta, Khushboo Singhal
      Pages 79-85
  5. SMS Based FAQ Retrieval Track

    1. Text Retrieval Using SMS Queries: Datasets and Overview of FIRE 2011 Track on SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval

      • Danish Contractor, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Deepak P., Ankush Mittal
      Pages 86-99
    2. Data-Driven Methods for SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval

      • Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Hung Tran, Padmini Srinivasan
      Pages 104-118
    3. Language Modeling Approach to Retrieval for SMS and FAQ Matching

      • Aditya Mogadala, Rambhoopal Kothwal, Vasudeva Varma
      Pages 119-130
    4. SMS Based FAQ Retrieval

      • Nishit Shivhre
      Pages 131-141
    5. Improving Accuracy of SMS Based FAQ Retrieval System

      • Anwar D. Shaikh, Mukul Jain, Mukul Rawat, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Manoj Kumar
      Pages 142-156
    6. Mapping SMSes to Plain Text FAQs

      • Arpit Gupta
      Pages 157-162
    7. SMS Normalization for FAQ Retrieval

      • Khushboo Singhal, Gaurav Arora, Smita Kumari, Prasenjit Majumder
      Pages 163-174
    8. Two Models for the SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval Task of FIRE 2011

      • Darnes Vilariño, David Pinto, Saul LeĂłn, Esteban Castillo, Mireya Tovar
      Pages 175-183
    9. SMS Normalisation, Retrieval and Out-of-Domain Detection Approaches for SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval

      • Deirdre Hogan, Johannes Leveling, Hongyi Wang, Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin
      Pages 184-196
  6. RISOT - Retrieval from Indic Script OCR’d Text Track

    1. Overview of the FIRE 2011 RISOT Task

      • Utpal Garain, Jiaul H. Paik, Tamaltaru Pal, Prasenjit Majumder, David S. Doermann, Douglas W. Oard
      Pages 197-204

About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second and Third Workshops of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, FIRE 2010 and 2011, on Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Languages held in Gandhinagar, India, in February 2010 and in Bombay, India, in December 2011. The volume brings together revised and expanded versions of a total of 29 papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on various aspects of multi-lingual information access.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gujarat, India

    Prasenjit Majumder

  • Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

    Mandar Mitra

  • Indian Institutte of Technology, Bombay, India

    Pushpak Bhattacharyya

  • IBM Research New Delhi, India

    L. Venkata Subramaniam, Danish Contractor

  • NLE Lab - ELiRF, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Paolo Rosso

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Languages

  • Book Subtitle: Second and Third Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval, FIRE 2010 and FIRE 2011, held in Gandhinagar, India, February 19-20, and in Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011

  • Editors: Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Danish Contractor, Paolo Rosso

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40087-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40086-5Published: 08 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40087-2Published: 13 August 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 353

  • Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Asian Languages

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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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