Theme Based English and Bengali Ad-hoc Monolingual Information Retrieval in FIRE 2010
Pinaki Bhaskar, Amitava Das, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay · 2010
This paper presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of the participation in the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2010 in ad-hoc mono-lingual information retrieval task for English and Bengali languages. The experiments carried out by us for FIRE 2010 are based on stemming, zonal indexing, theme identification, TF-IDF based ranking model and positional information. The document collection for English and Bengali contained 1,23,047 and 1,25,586 documents respectively. Each query was specified using title, narration and description format. 75 queries were used for training the system while the system was tested with 50 queries in each of English and Bengali.