... test these hypothe-ses in the context of Information Retrieval,by syntactically representing queries, andremoving from them content-poor blocks,in line with the aforementioned hypothe-ses. For ... 401-450 from the ad-hoc task of the 1999Web track, for the WT2G test collection, and the queries 451-500 from the ad-hoc task of the 2000 Web track, for the WT10G test collection,with their respective ... on the basis of the part of speech class membership of their individual components. Specifically, we hy-pothesise that the more closed class componentsfound in a POS block, the less content the...