A LANGUAGE MODELING APPROACH TO TURKISH TEXT RETRIEVAL

We used Lemur Toolkit, an open source toolkit designed for Information Retrieval research, for our automated indexing and retrieval experiments on a TREC-like test collection for Turkish language. We investigate effectiveness of three retrieval models Lemur supports, especially Language modeling approach to Information Retrieval, combined with language specific preprocessing techniques. Our experiments show that language specific preprocessing significantly improves retrieval performance for all retrieval models. Also Language Modeling approach is the best performing retrieval model when language specific preprocessing applied.