The Persian language is one of the dominant languages in the Middle East, so there are
significant amount of Persian documents available on the Web. Due to the different nature of …

Despite having a large number of speakers, Sorani—one of the two principle branches of
the Kurdish language—is among the less-resourced languages. This paper reports on the …

Stop word identification is one of the most important tasks for many text processing
applications such as information retrieval. Stop words occur too frequently in documents in a …

在国内信息检索研究日益受到重视的背景下, 介绍了构建小型中文测试集的意义及测试集的研究
现状. 参考国外测试集的构建经验, 论述了小型中文信息检索测试集的构建方法 …

The Kurdish language is an Indo-European language spoken in Kurdistan, a large
geographical region in the Middle East. Despite having a large number of speakers, Kurdish …

Urdu is a widely spoken language with 163 million speakers across the globe. Information
Retrieval (IR) for Urdu entails special consideration of research community due to its rich …

The nasa yuwe is the language of the Paez people in Colombia is currently an endangered
language [1]. The nasa community has therefore been reviewing different strategies with the …

This study proposes a test topic generation framework through an analysis of existing
literature. The framework contains three components, including a list of questions for eliciting …

The TebCorp collection is a large thematic modern Persian text collection which consists of
500 MB of text from Tebyan Portal. TebCorp contains more than 93,000 articles in 1097 …

With increasingly higher numbers of non-English language web searchers the problems of
efficient handling of non-English documents and user queries are becoming major issues for …