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Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval

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Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories (CLEF 2005)

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In CLEF 2005 experiments we used a bilingual Russian-English Socio-Political Thesaurus that we developed over more than 10 years as a tool for automatic text processing in information retrieval tasks. The same resource and the same algorithms were used for the ad-hoc and domain–specific task.

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Ageev, M., Dobrov, B., Loukachevitch, N. (2006). Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval. In: Peters, C., et al. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11878773_15

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