Purpose: This paper aims to describe the structure of an aligned Serbian-German literary corpus (SrpNemKor) contained in a digital library Bibliša. The goal of the research was to create a benchmark Serbian-German annotated corpus searchable with various query expansions. Design/methodology/approach: The presented research is particularly focused on the enhancement of bilingual search queries in a full-text search of aligned SrpNemKor collection. The enhancement is based on using existing lexical resources such as Serbian morphological electronic dictionaries and the bilingual lexical database Termi. Findings: For the purpose of this research, the lexical database Termi is enriched with a bilingual list of German-Serbian translated pairs of lexical units. The list of correct translation pairs was extracted from SrpNemKor, evaluated and integrated into Termi. Also, Serbian morphological e-dictionaries are updated with new entries extracted from the Serbian part of the corpus. Originality/value: A bilingual search of SrpNemKor in Bibliša is available within the user-friendly platform. The enriched database Termi enables semantic enhancement and refinement of user’s search query based on synonyms both in Serbian and German at a very high level. Serbian morphological e-dictionaries facilitate the morphological expansion of search queries in Serbian, thereby enabling the analysis of concepts and concept structures by identifying terms assigned to the concept, and by establishing relations between terms in Serbian and German which makes Bibliša a valuable Web tool that can support research and analysis of SrpNemKor.

In this paper we describe an approach to improvement of information retrieval results for large textual databases by pre-indexing documents using bag-of-words and named entity recognition. The approach was applied on a database of geological projects financed by the Republic of Serbia for several decades now. Each document within this database is described by a summary report, consisting of metadata on the geological project, such as title, domain, keywords, abstract, and geographical location. A bag of words was produced from these metadata with the help of morphological dictionaries and transducers, while named entities were recognized using a rule-based system. Both were then used for pre-indexing documents for information retrieval purposes where ranking of retrieved documents was based on several \(tf\_idf\) based measures. Evaluation of ranked retrieval results based on data obtained by pre-indexing were compared to results obtained by informational retrieval without pre-indexing with precision-recall curve, showing a significant improvement in terms of the mean average precision measure.