Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages [electronic resource] : Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010, Gandhinagar, India, February 19-21, 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Bombay, India, December 2-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Danish Contractor, Paolo Rosso.

Query expansion based on equi-width and equi-frequency partition -- Ad-hoc retrieval with Marathi language -- Frequent case generation in ad-hoc retrieval of three Indian languages Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second and Third Workshops of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, FIRE 2010 and 2011, on Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Languages held in Gandhinagar, India, in February 2010 and in Bombay, India, in December 2011. The volume brings together revised and expanded versions of a total of 29 papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on various aspects of multi-lingual information access.