JIRS (Java Information Retrieval System)

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Information retrieval (IR) is the process of searching for and retrieving information from a database or collection of documents. The goal of IR is to find and present relevant information to the user in a timely and efficient manner.

IR systems are used in a variety of contexts, including search engines, document management systems, library catalogs, and other types of databases. These systems may be used to search for specific information or documents, or to find documents that contain specific words or phrases.

IR systems use algorithms and other techniques to search for and rank relevant documents based on the user’s search query. The results of the search are typically presented to the user in a list, with the most relevant documents appearing at the top. In addition to searching for specific documents or information, IR systems may also be used to perform tasks such as text classification, clustering, and summarization.

Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS) is a software application that is designed to perform information retrieval tasks based on passages. Information retrieval refers to the process of searching for and retrieving information from a database or collection of documents. JIRS is specifically designed to perform information retrieval based on passages, which are defined as contiguous blocks of text within a document.

JIRS may be used to search for and retrieve specific passages within a collection of documents based on a user’s search query. It is implemented in the Java programming language and may be used in a variety of applications, such as search engines, document management systems, and other types of information retrieval systems.

Web search engines are a type of information retrieval (IR) application that allows users to search for and retrieve information from the internet. When a user enters a search query into a search engine, the search engine uses algorithms to find and rank relevant web pages from its index of the internet. The search results are then presented to the user in a list, with the most relevant results appearing at the top.

Web search engines are the most visible IR applications because they are widely used by internet users to find information on the web. Some of the most popular web search engines include Google, Bing, and Yahoo. In addition to web search engines, there are also other types of IR applications, such as database search engines and enterprise search engines, which are used to search for information within specific databases or within an organization’s internal systems.

Information retrieval (IR) is a key component of many dialog systems, which are computer systems that are designed to communicate with humans through natural language dialog. Dialog systems are used in a variety of applications, including customer service chatbots, virtual assistants, and educational tutoring systems.

In a dialog system, IR is used to search for and retrieve information from a database or collection of documents in response to a user’s query. This can involve searching for specific documents or information, or finding documents that contain specific words or phrases. The results of the search are then used to generate a response to the user’s query or to provide additional information on a particular topic.

For example, in a customer service chatbot, IR might be used to search for and retrieve information about a particular product or service in response to a user’s question. In an educational tutoring system, IR might be used to search for and retrieve information about a particular topic in response to a student’s question. In both cases, the IR system is used to help the dialog system provide accurate and relevant information to the user.

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NLEL-MAAT at ResPubliQA [PDF] from ua.esS Correa, D Buscaldi… – Multilingual Information Access …, 2011 – Springer … net/projects/jirs/ C. Peters et al. (Eds.): CLEF 2009 Workshop, Part I, LNCS 6241, pp. 223-228, 2010. c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Page 2. 224 S. Correa, D. Buscaldi, and P. Rosso explain the main concepts of JIRS (Java Information Retrieval System) system and …  Cited by 8 – Related articles – All 9 versions

[PDF] Passage retrieval and intellectual property in legal texts [PDF] from uclm.esS Correa, D Buscaldi, P Rosso… – FLACOS’09 Third Workshop …, 2009 – dsi.uclm.es … In order to address both tracks on QA in legal texts and on Intellectual Property (IP) of patent retrieval, we have used the JIRS (JAVA Information Retrieval System) search engine, a freely available5 PR system which has been developed at the UPV [1]. The results have been …  Cited by 2 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 12 versions

[PDF] Structure-based evaluation of an Arabic semantic Query Expansion using the JIRS Passage Retrieval system [PDF] from aclweb.orgL Abouenour, K Bouzoubaa… – EACL 2009 Workshop on …, 1931 – aclweb.org … Two types of experiments are con- ducted: the keyword-based evaluation which uses a classical search engine as passage re- trieval system, and the structure-based evalua- tion that uses the Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS) which takes into account the structure of …  Cited by 5 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 14 versions

[CITATION] Adapting ibqas to work with text transcriptions in qast task: Ibqast M Pardiño, J Gómez, H Llorens, R Muñoz-Terol… – Working Notes of CLEF …, 2008 Cited by 7 – Related articles – All 3 versions

[PDF] Three-level approach for Passage Retrieval in Arabic Question/Answering Systems [PDF] from emi.ac.maL Abouenour, K Bouzoubaa… – Proc. Of the 3rd International …, 2009 – emi.ac.ma … However, the context of Q/A is different. Indeed, at the answer extraction level, the structure of the question is to be considered. To do so, we have chosen the Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS6) as PR module. … 6 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/ Global Expansion …  Cited by 6 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 4 versions

[PDF] Recuperación de pasajes multilingüe para la búsqueda de respuestas [PDF] from sepln.orgJM Gómez – Impresos de Inscripción, 2008 – sepln.org … C06- 01. sajes) con la respuesta cuando la pregunta se realiza en lenguaje natural. JAVA Information Retrieval System (JIRS) es un sistema de RI que fue inicial- mente ideado y especializado para tareas de BR. El objetivo …  Cited by 4 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 12 versions

[PDF] Recuperacin de Pasajes Multilinges para la Bsqueda de Respuestas [PDF] from ujaen.esJM Gmez – Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, 2008 – sinai.ujaen.es … C06- 01. sajes) con la respuesta cuando la pregunta se realiza en lenguaje natural. JAVA Information Retrieval System (JIRS) es un sistema de RI que fue inicial- mente ideado y especializado para tareas de BR. El objetivo …  View as HTML

Answering Questions with an n-gram based Passage Retrieval Engine [PDF] from ua.esD Buscaldi, P Rosso, JM Gómez-Soriano… – Journal of Intelligent …, 2010 – Springer … with the correct answer). The JAVA Information Retrieval System (JIRS)4 is a passage retrieval system based on an n-gram based model (Clustered Keyword Positional Distance model, CKPD). 4The passage retrieval engine …  Cited by 14 – Related articles – All 6 versions

Passage retrieval in legal texts [PDF] from archives-ouvertes.frP Rosso, S Correa… – Journal of Logic and Algebraic …, 2011 – Elsevier … Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming xxx (2011) xxx xxx 3 JIRS 9 (Java Information Retrieval System) is a passage retrieval system which is based on a density n-gram distance model, where an n-gram is a sequence of n words. … 9 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/. …  Related articles – All 2 versions

Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language [PDF] from upv.esY Benajiba, P Rosso… – Computational Linguistics and …, 2007 – Springer … JAVA Information Retrieval System (JIRS) is a PR QA-oriented system, multi-platform, open source and free to use. JIRS uses an n-gram model and it is language-independent. It separates lan- guage configuration files to make easier its adaptation to any language. …  Cited by 12 – Related articles – BL Direct – All 9 versions

[CITATION] Re-ranking of Yahoo snippets with the JIRS Passage Retrieval system JM Gómez, P Rosso… – Proc. Workshop on Cross Lingual Information …, 2007 Cited by 10 – Related articles

[CITATION] JIRS Language-independent Passage Retrieval system: A comparative study JM Gómez, D Buscaldi, P Rosso… – 5th International Conference on …, 2007 Cited by 9 – Related articles

[PDF] An evaluated semantic query expansion and structure-based approach for enhancing Arabic question/answering [PDF] from ieee.maL Abouenour, K Bouzouba… – ieee.ma … ArabiQA [9] is an Arabic Q/A prototype based on the Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS)2 [8] Passage Retrieval (PR) system and a Named Entities Recognition (NER) module. … 1 http://www.raya.com 2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs …  Cited by 2 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 6 versions

An Arabic Question-Answering system for factoid questions W Brini, M Ellouze, S Mesfar… – … Engineering, 2009. NLP …, 2009 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … systems. ArabiQA [5]: is an Arabic QA system that embeds an Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) system called ANERsys and it adapts the Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS) to extract passages from Arabic documents. …  Cited by 3 – Related articles – All 2 versions

NLEL-MAAT at CLEF-IP [PDF] from ua.esS Correa, D Buscaldi… – Multilingual Information Access …, 2010 – Springer … 2 Intellectual Property Task The main task of the CLEF-IP track consists in finding the prior art for a given patent. The corpus is composed by documents from the European Patent 1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/ 2 http://lucene.apache.org C. Peters et al. …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 9 versions

SINAI System: Combining IR Systems at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007 M García-Cumbreras, M Díaz-Galiano… – … in Multilingual and …, 2008 – Springer … The dataset has been indexed using both IR systems, namely, Lemur1 (used past years) and JIRS [3]. Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS) is a Passage Retrieval system oriented to Question Answering tasks although it can be applied as IR system. …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 2 versions

[PDF] NLEL at RespubliQA 2010 [PDF] from upv.esS Correa, D Buscaldi… – Notebook Paper for the CLEF 2010 … – users.dsic.upv.es … The n-gram extraction module will return all the n-grams of size 1 to n, where n is the number of terms of the question. This process is done both for the question and for each of the snippets 1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/ Page 2. …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 5 versions

[DOC] AIR completion report [DOC] from jisc.ac.ukN Ponomareva – ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk … 8, Lucene, http://lucene.apache.org, to speed up the process of deleting duplicated records. 9, JPM, http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/, To integrate different processes to build the application. 10, HTMLparser, http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/, to process html-files. …  View as HTML

[PDF] AQUASYS: AN ARABIC QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEM BASED ON EXTENSIVE QUESTION ANALYSIS AND ANSWER RELEVANCE SCORING [PDF] from lit.azS Bekhti, A Rehman, M Al-Harbi… – ijar.lit.az … INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Of ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. 3. No. 4. July, 2011, I Part ArabiQA: It deals with factoid questions, integrates NER (Named Entity Recognition) module and adapts JIRS (Java Information Retrieval System) to extract passages from Arabic texts. …  Related articles – View as HTML

[PDF] An evaluated semantic QE and structure-based approach for enhancing Arabic Q/A [PDF] from emi.ac.maL Abouenour, K Bouzoubaa… – The Special Issue on Advances in … – emi.ac.ma … ArabiQA [9] is an Arabic Q/A prototype based on the Java Information Retrieval System (JIRS)2 [8] Passage Retrieval (PR) system and a Named Entities Recognition (NER) module. … 2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs An evaluated semantic QE and structure-based …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML

[PDF] Contextual Approach for Paragraph Selection in Question Answering Task [PDF] from clef2010.orgH Toba… – Notebook Paper for the CLEF 2010 LABs Workshop – clef2010.org … each question type. The aim of this step is to interpret the questions and 2 http://www.ephyra.info 3 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/ 4 http://semanticvectors. googlecode.com/ Page 3. transform them into queries. The question …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 4 versions

[PDF] DefArabicQA: Arabic Definition Question Answering System [PDF] from lrec-conf.orgO Trigui, HL Belguith… – Workshop on Language Resources …, 2010 – lrec-conf.org Page 45. DefArabicQA: Arabic Definition Question Answering System Omar Trigui 1, Lamia Hadrich Belguith 1, Paolo Rosso 2 1 ANLP Research Group-MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia 2 Natural Language Engineering …  Cited by 2 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 3 versions

[PDF] Towards a Unified Approach for Opinion Question Answering and Summarization [PDF] from aclweb.orgE Lloret, A Balahur, M Palomar… – ACL HLT 2011, 2011 – aclweb.org … text summa- rization. 4.1 Opinion Question Answering and Summarization Components • Information Retrieval JAVA Information Retrieval system (JIRS) is a IR system especially suited for QA tasks (Gómez, 2007). Its purpose …  Related articles – View as HTML – All 8 versions

Ihardetsi: A Question Answering system for Basque built on reused linguistic processors I Alegria, O Ansa, X Arregi, A Otegi… – Proc. SALTMIL 2009 …, 2009 – isca-speech.org Page 46. Ihardetsi: A Question Answering system for Basque built on reused linguistic processors Iñaki Alegria, Olatz Ansa, Xabier Arregi, Arantxa Otegi, Ander Soraluze IXA Group. University of the Basque Country xabier. arregi@ ehu. …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 3 versions

On the improvement of passage retrieval in Arabic question/answering (Q/A) systems L Abouenour – Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2011 – Springer … 3 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs 4 Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) is defined as the average of the reciprocal ranks of the results for a sample of queries (the reciprocal rank of a query response is the multiplicative inverse of the rank of the correct answer). …  Related articles – All 3 versions

[PDF] The OpAL System at NTCIR 8 MOAT [PDF] from nii.ac.jpA Balahur, E Boldrini, A Montoyo… – Proceedings of NTCIR …, 2010 – research.nii.ac.jp … For the sentence relevance judgement task stage, we employ three strategies (corresponding to the system runs 1,2 and 3, respectively): 1. Using the JIRS (JAVA Information Retrieval System) IR engine [11] to find relevant snippets. …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions

Knowledge Integration using Textual Information for Improving ImageCLEF Collections MC Díaz-Galiano, MÁ García-Cumbreras… – ImageCLEF, 2010 – Springer … ing scheme to combine the results. Lemur and JIRS (Java Information Retrieval System) (Gómez-Soriano, JM, Montes-y-Gómez, M., Sanchis-Arnal, E., and Rosso, P. 2005) were adapted for our system. Lemur is a toolkit that …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 2 versions

Arabic named entity recognition [PDF] from upv.esY Benajiba – 2009 – dspace.cc.upv.es Page 1. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación Reconocimiento de Formas e Inteligencia Artificial Arabic Named Entity Recognition The accepted dissertation of Yassine Benajiba in partial fulfillment of the requirements …  Cited by 2 – Related articles – All 14 versions

[PDF] ON THE EXTENSION OF ARABIC W ORDNET NAM ED ENTITIES AND ITS IM PACT ON QUESTION/ANSW ERING [PDF] from upv.esL Abouenour, K Bouzoubaa… – users.dsic.upv.es … These performances are due to the high coverage of YAGO in terms of names of Locations, Time and Persons existing in the 11 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs considered questions (respectively 43%, 55% and 32.56%). 6 CONCLUSION …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 4 versions

An approach for adding noise-tolerance to restricted-domain information retrieval K Vila, J Díaz, A Fernández… – Natural Language Processing …, 2010 – Springer … The baseline IR system used to conduct the experiments is called JIRS (JAVA Information Retrieval System) [8,9]. This retrieval system has a natural language question as an input (instead of keywords) and a list of passages containing the answer as an output, which are …  Cited by 2 – Related articles – All 3 versions

[PDF] Improving Q/A Using Arabic Wordnet [PDF] from upv.esL Abouenour, K Bouzoubaa… – Proc. The 2008 …, 2008 – users.dsic.upv.es … In order to confirm these results, we intend to do other experiments with a large set of questions and using the JAVA Information Retrieval System (JIRS) [3] instead of Google. Measures such as recall, precision and F-measure will be used in the evaluation process. …  Cited by 7 – Related articles – View as HTML – All 7 versions

[PDF] BÚSQUEDA DE RESPUESTAS EN LA WEB: EL VALENCIANO EN TAREAS MONO Y TRANSLINGÜES [PDF] from upv.esJLP Carrión, P Rosso… – users.dsic.upv.es … de búsqueda de respuestas. Se presenta el sistema JIRS6 (Java Information Retrieval System), sistema de búsqueda de respuestas basado en la recuperación de pasajes. Además, se explican las características principales …  View as HTML – All 4 versions

Recuperación de pasajes multilingües para la búsqueda de respuestas [PDF] from upv.esJ GÓMEZ SORIANO – 2008 – riunet.upv.es Page 1. ? ? ? ? ?? ????? ? ? ? ???? ?? ???? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ? ?? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ?????? …  All 8 versions

[PDF] Recuperación de pasajes en textos legales y patentes multilingües [PDF] from upv.esSC Garcia – users.dsic.upv.es … de una colección de documentos susceptibles de ser una respuesta. 1http:// sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/ Page 29. 3.2. SISTEMA JIRS 17 Figura 3.4: Arquitectura de JIRS La hipótesis en la cual se basa el funcionamiento de …  Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions

A flexible multitask summarizer for documents from different media, domain and language [PDF] from tesisenred.netM Fuentes Fort – 2008 – tesisenred.net Page 1. Chapter 3 Overall FEMsum Architecture As pointed out in Chapter 1, one of the main objectives of this thesis is to provide a general framework to allow the use of several Automatic Summarization (AS) techniques and …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 9 versions

[PDF] Geographical Information Resolution and its Application to the Question Answering Systems [PDF] from psu.eduDF Domenech… – Citeseer Page 1. Geographical Information Resolution and its Application to the Question Answering Systems Daniel Ferrés Dom`enech dferres@lsi.upc.edu Director Horacio Rodriguez Hontoria Mem`oria del DEA i Projecte de Tesi …  Related articles – View as HTML – All 2 versions

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[PDF] An optimized soft computing-based passage retrieval system [PDF] from ibspan.waw.plD Ortiz-Arroyo… – Control and Cybernetics, 2009 – control.ibspan.waw.pl Page 1. Control and Cybernetics vol. 38 (2009) No. 2 An optimized soft computing-based passage retrieval system* by Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo and Hans Ulrich Christensen Department of Electronic Systems Aalborg University …  Related articles – View as HTML – All 8 versions

[PDF] Experiments in improvement of Arabic information retrieval [PDF] from emi.ac.maF Harrag, A Hamdi-Cherif, A Al-Salman… – 3rd IEEE International …, 2009 – emi.ac.ma Page 1. 3rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (CITALA’09), May 4-5, 2009, Rabat, Morocco 71 Experiments in Improvement of Arabic Information Retrieval Fouzi Harrag*, Aboubekeur Hamdi-Cherif**, Abdul Malik S.Al-Salman***, Eyas El-Qawasmeh****, …  Cited by 2 – Related articles – View as HTML

[PDF] Recuperación de Pasajes Orientada a la Resolución de Preguntas con Restricción Temporal [PDF] from inaoep.mxGH RUBIO – 2008 – cseg.inaoep.mx Page 1. Recuperación de Pasajes Orientada a la Resolución de Preguntas con Restricción Temporal Por GUSTAVO HERNÁNDEZ RUBIO Tesis sometida como requisito parcial para obtener el grado de Maestro en Ciencias en la especialidad de Ciencias Computacionales …  Related articles – View as HTML – All 4 versions

Questions réponses et interactions [PDF] from archives-ouvertes.frK Séjourné – 2009 – hal.archives-ouvertes.fr Page 1. Université de Paris Sud XI Ecole Doctorale d’Informatique Mémoire de thèse Questions r´eponses et interactions K ´evin S éjourn é Pour l’obtention du Doctorat de l’université de Paris Sud XI (spécialité informatique) …  Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 2 versions

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