• Building High-Quality Datasets for Information Retrieval Evaluation at a Reduced Cost 

      Otero, David; Valcarce, Daniel; Parapar, Javier; Barreiro, Álvaro (M D P I AG, 2019-08-01)
      [Abstract] Information Retrieval is not any more exclusively about document ranking. Continuously new tasks are proposed on this and sibling fields. With this proliferation of tasks, it becomes crucial to have a cheap way ...
    • Designing an Open Source Virtual Assistant 

      Pérez, Anxo; López-Otero, Paula; Parapar, Javier (MDPI AG, 2020-08-21)
      [Abstract] A chatbot is a type of agent that allows people to interact with an information repository using natural language. Nowadays, chatbots have been incorporated in the form of conversational assistants on the most ...
    • Searching Four-Millennia-Old Documents: A Text Retrieval System for Egyptologists 

      Iglesias-Franjo, Estíbaliz; Vilares, Jesús (2016-08)
      [Abstract] Progress made in recent years has led to a growing interest in Digital Heritage. This article focuses on Egyptology and, more specifically, the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian scripts. We present a ...
    • The Coruña Corpus Tool 

      Parapar, Javier; Moskowich, Isabel (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2007)
      [Abstracts] The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. ...
    • The Coruña Corpus Tool: Ten years on 

      Barsaglini Castro, Anabella; Valcarce, Daniel (Sociedad Española para el Procesamieno del Lenguaje Natural, 2020-03)
      [Resumen] En este artículo presentamos una breve introducción a una nueva versión del Coruña Corpus Tool. Actualmente disponible para Windows, macOS yLinux, el Coruña Corpus Tool es una herramienta de gestión de corpus que ...
    • TIR over Egyptian Hieroglyphs 

      Iglesias-Franjo, Estíbaliz; Vilares, Jesús (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2016-09)
      [Abstract] This work presents an Information Retrieval system specifically designed to manage Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts taking into account their peculiarities both at lexical and at encoding level for its ...
    • Using score distributions to compare statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation 

      Parapar, Javier; Losada, David E.; Presedo-Quindimil, Manuel-Antonio; Barreiro, Álvaro (Willey, 2019-01-11)
      [Abstract] Statistical significance tests can provide evidence that the observed difference in performance between two methods is not due to chance. In Information Retrieval, some studies have examined the validity and ...