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ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Pseudo-Query Reformulation
Automatic query reformulation refers to rewriting a user’s original query in order to improve the ranking of retrieval results compared to the original query. We present a gener...
Fernando Diaz
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Temporal Random Indexing: a Tool for Analysing Word Meaning Variations in News
The availability of data spanning different epochs has inspired a new analysis of cultural, social, and linguistic phenomena from a temporal perspective. This paper describes the...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Engineering a Tool to Detect Automatically Generated Papers
Abstract. In the last decade, a number of nonsense automatically-generated scientific papers have been published, most of them were produced using probabilistic context free gramm...
Minh-Tien Nguyen, Cyril Labbé
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
An Analysis of Novelty Dynamics in News Media Coverage
Computer Science has affected almost all fields of human knowledge, contributing to scientific advances in many branches of Natural and Social Sciences. Journalism is one of th...
Ronaldo Cristiano Prati, Walter Teixeira Lima Juni...
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Visualising the Propagation of News on the Web
When newsworthy events occur, information quickly spreads across the Web, along official news outlets as well as across social media platforms. Information diffusion models can h...
Svitlana Vakulenko, Max C. Göbel, Arno Scharl...
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval
Abstract. Retrieving finer grained text units such as passages or sentences as answers for non-factoid Web queries is becoming increasingly important for applications such as mobi...
Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Ch...
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Understandability Biased Evaluation for Information Retrieval
Abstract. Although relevance is known to be a multidimensional concept, information retrieval measures mainly consider one dimension of relevance: topicality. In this paper we prop...
Guido Zuccon
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent
Online learning to rank methods aim to optimize ranking models based on user interactions. The dueling bandit gradient descent (DBGD) algorithm is able to effectively optimize line...
Harrie Oosterhuis, Anne Schuth, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
Feedback or Research: Separating Pre-purchase from Post-purchase Consumer Reviews
Consumer reviews provide a wealth of information about products and services that, if properly identified and extracted, could be of immense value to businesses. While classifica...
Mehedi Hasan, Alexander Kotov, Aravind Mohan, Shiy...
ECIR
2016
Springer
10 years 1 months ago
A Full-Text Learning to Rank Dataset for Medical Information Retrieval
Abstract. We present a dataset for learning to rank in the medical domain, consisting of thousands of full-text queries that are linked to thousands of research articles. The queri...
Vera Boteva, Demian Gholipour, Artem Sokolov, Stef...