Report on the FIRE 2020 evaluation initiative

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Parth Mehta ◽  
Thomas Mandl ◽  
Prasenjit Majumder ◽  
Surupendu Gangopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Paper Session ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Information Retrieval Evaluation ◽  
Asian Languages

This report gives an overview on the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) initiative for South-Asian languages 1 . The FIRE conference was conducted online in December 2020. The event combined a conference including keynotes, peer reviewed paper session with an Evaluation Forum. This report will present an overview of the conference and provide insights into the evaluation tracks. Current domains include legal information access, mixed script information retrieval, semantic analysis and social media posts classification. The tasks are discussed and connections to other evaluation initiatives are shown.

CIRCLE 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Iván Cantador ◽  
Max Chevalier ◽  
Massimo Melucci ◽  
Josiane Mothe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Research Work ◽  
User Profiling ◽  
Joint Conference ◽  
Information Retrieval Evaluation ◽  
Wide Range

The Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE 2020) is the first joint conference of the French, Italian, Spanish, and Swiss information retrieval communities. Although these communities had conceived the CIRCLE conference as a meeting and networking venue, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they had to make the conference as fully virtual event. Nonetheless, the three days of conference gathered interesting studies and research work on a wide range of topics on information retrieval, such as topic and document modelling, query and ranking refinement, information retrieval in e-government, social media, recommender systems, information retrieval evaluation, indexing and annotation, user profiling and interaction, frameworks and systems, and semantic extraction.

Building CLIA for Resource-Scarce African Languages

2018 ◽  
pp. 1121-1142
Author(s):  
Kula Kekeba Tune ◽  
Vasudeva Varma
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Query Translation ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Asian Languages

Since most of the existing major search engines and commercial Information Retrieval (IR) systems are primarily designed for well-resourced European and Asian languages, they have paid little attention to the development of Cross-Language Information Access (CLIA) technologies for resource-scarce African languages. This paper presents the authors' experience in building CLIA for indigenous African languages, with a special focus on the development and evaluation of Oromo-English-CLIR. The authors have adopted a knowledge-based query translation approach to design and implement their initial Oromo-English CLIR (OMEN-CLIR). Apart from designing and building the first OMEN-CLIR from scratch, another major contribution of this study is assessing the performance of the proposed retrieval system at one of the well-recognized international Cross-Language Evaluation Forums like the CLEF campaign. The overall performance of OMEN-CLIR was found to be very promising and encouraging, given the limited amount of linguistic resources available for severely under-resourced African languages like Afaan Oromo.

ANALISA YURIDIS HAK KEBEBASAN BERPENDAPAT BERDASARKAN KETENTUAN UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 19 TAHUN 2016 TENTANG PERUBAHAN ATAS UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 11 TAHUN 2008 TENTANG INFORMASI DAN TRANSAKSI ELEKTRONIK

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 001
Author(s):  
Eddy Suwito
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Harm To Others ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic

The development of technology that continues to grow, the public increasingly facilitates socialization through technology. Opinion on free and uncontrolled social media causes harm to others. The law sees this phenomenon subsequently changing. Legal Information Known as Information and Electronic Transaction Law or ITE Law. However, the ITE Law cannot protect the entire general public. Because it is an Article in the ITE Law that is contrary to Article in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

Designing a Chat-Bot for College Information using Information Retrieval and Automatic Text Summarization Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radha Guha
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Text Summarization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Specific Domain ◽  
User Query ◽  
College Information ◽  
Chat Bot

Background:: In the era of information overload it is very difficult for a human reader to make sense of the vast information available in the internet quickly. Even for a specific domain like college or university website it may be difficult for a user to browse through all the links to get the relevant answers quickly. Objective:: In this scenario, design of a chat-bot which can answer questions related to college information and compare between colleges will be very useful and novel. Methods:: In this paper a novel conversational interface chat-bot application with information retrieval and text summariza-tion skill is designed and implemented. Firstly this chat-bot has a simple dialog skill when it can understand the user query intent, it responds from the stored collection of answers. Secondly for unknown queries, this chat-bot can search the internet and then perform text summarization using advanced techniques of natural language processing (NLP) and text mining (TM). Results:: The advancement of NLP capability of information retrieval and text summarization using machine learning tech-niques of Latent Semantic Analysis(LSI), Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Word2Vec, Global Vector (GloVe) and Tex-tRank are reviewed and compared in this paper first before implementing them for the chat-bot design. This chat-bot im-proves user experience tremendously by getting answers to specific queries concisely which takes less time than to read the entire document. Students, parents and faculty can get the answers for variety of information like admission criteria, fees, course offerings, notice board, attendance, grades, placements, faculty profile, research papers and patents etc. more effi-ciently. Conclusion:: The purpose of this paper was to follow the advancement in NLP technologies and implement them in a novel application.

Coda: Ten Questions on Globality

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
The Editors ◽  
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
The University ◽  
Asian Languages

Abstract Dipesh Chakrabarty is Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including The Crises of Civilization (2018) and Provincializing Europe (2000); and was one of the principal founders of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies. In this discussion he ruminates upon the state of globality; its relationship to the planet Earth; the scope and possible duration of the Anthropocene; and some of globalization's consequences for humanity and human understanding. The interview was conducted by managing editor, Kenneth Weisbrode.

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