A Baseline for NLP in Domain-Specific IR

Johannes Leveling

Abstract: The information retrieval (IR) methods employed for the third participation of the University of Hagen in the domain-specific task of the Cross Language Evaluation Campaign (CLEF 2005) provide a baseline for experiments with natural language processing (NLP) methods in domain-specific IR than methods employed in our previous participations. The baseline consists of a combination of state-of-the-art IR methods with NLP methods for document and query processing.