Introduction to the Special Issue on Indian Language Information Retrieval Part I

摘要

Over the last few years, there has been a significant growth in the amount of re-search activity on Indian language Information Retrieval (IR) and allied prob-lems. For much of this time, however, standard benchmark datasets were not publicly available. Thus, it was difficult to measure how much actual progress was being made as a result of this research. More recently, efforts have been made to create evaluation frameworks that provide reusable test collections for experimentation, as well as a common forum for comparing models and tech-niques. For example, the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation1 (FIRE) provides Cranfield-style text collections in Indian languages that may be used to evaluate systems for monolingual and cross-lingual IR.