In our first participation in the NTCIR Workshop, we focused on the evaluation of the relative effectiveness of different indexing approaches (word-based, N-gram-based, and yomior pronunciation-based) for Japanese IR and the benefits of their fusion. Our MIMOR (“multiple indexing for method-object relations in IR”) system has already proved very effective in CLEF 1 . The
['Nina Kummer', 'Christa Womser-Hacker', 'Noriko Kando']
MIMOR @ NTCIR 5: A Fusion-based Approach to Japanese Information Retrieval