Multilingual information access in South Asian languages : second International Workshop, FIRE 2010, Gandhinagar, India, February 19-21, 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011, Revised selected papers / Prasenjit Majumder [and 5 more] (eds.).

FIRE 2011. Overview of FIRE 2011 / Sauparna Palchowdhury [and others] -- Adhoc Track. Query Expansion Based on Equi-Width and Equi-Frequency Partition / Rekha Vaidyanathan, Sujoy Das, Namita Srivastava -- Ad Hoc Retrieval with Marathi Language / Mitra Akasereh, Jacques Savoy -- Frequent Case Generation in Ad Hoc Retrieval of Three Indian Languages -- Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi / Jiaul H. Paik [and others] -- ISM@FIRE-2011 Bengali Monolingual Task: A Frequency-Based Stemmer / Raktim Banerjee, Sukomal Pal -- CLiTR -- Cross Lingual Text Reuse Track. PAN@FIRE: Overview of the Cross-Language!ndian Text Re-Use Detection Competition / Alberto Barròn-Cedeño [and others] -- Cross Lingual Text Reuse Detection Based on Keyphrase Extraction and Similarity Measures / Rambhoopal Kothwal, Vasudeva Varma -- Mapping Hindi-English Text Re-use Document Pairs / Parth Gupta, Khushboo Singhal.

SMS Based FAQ Retrieval Track. Text Retrieval Using SMS Queries: Datasets and Overview of FIRE 2011 Track on SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval / Danish Contractor [and others] -- SMS Based FAQ Retrieval Using Latent Semantic Indexing / Arijit De -- Data-Driven Methods for SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval / Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Hung Tran, Padmini Srinivasan -- Language Modeling Approach to Retrieval for SMS and FAQ Matching / Aditya Mogadala, Rambhoopal Kothwal, Vasudeva Varma -- SMS Based FAQ Retrieval / Nishit Shivhre -- Improving Accuracy of SMS Based FAQ Retrieval System / Anwar D. Shaikh [and others] -- Mapping SMSes to Plain Text FAQs / Arpit Gupta -- SMS Normalization for FAQ Retrieval / Khushboo Singhal [and others] -- Two Models for the SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval Task of FIRE 2011 / Darnes Vilariño [and others] -- SMS Normalisation, Retrieval and Out-of-Domain Detection Approaches for SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval / Deirdre Hogan [and others].

RISOT -- Retrieval from Indic Script OCR'd Text Track. Overview of the FIRE 2011 RISOT Task / Utpal Garain [and others] -- Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali / Utpal Garain, David S. Doermann, Douglas W. Oard -- Overview of the Personalized and Collaborative Information Retrieval (PIR) Track at FIRE-2011 / Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J.F. Jones -- Simple Transliteration for CLIR. Simple Transliteration for CLIR / Sauparna Palchowdhury, Prasenjit Majumder -- FIRE 2010. Overview of FIRE 2010 / Prasenjit Majumder [and others] -- UTA Stemming and Lemmatization Experiments in the FIRE Bengali Ad Hoc Task / Aki Loponen, Jiaul H. Paik, Kalervo Järvelin -- Tamil English Cross Lingual Information Retrieval / T. Pattabhi R.K. Rao, Sobha Lalitha Devi -- Test Collections and Evaluation Metrics Based on Graded Relevance / Kalervo Järvelin -- Term Conflation and Blind Relevance Feedback for Information Retrieval on Indian Languages / Johannes Leveling, Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J.F. Jones -- Improving Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Transliteration Mining and Generation / K. Saravanan, Raghavendra Udupa, A. Kumaran -- Information Retrieval with Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi Languages: Evaluation and Analysis / Jacques Savoy, Ljiljana Dolamic, Mitra Akasereh.

Includes author index.

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.