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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic models of ranking novel documents for faceted topic retrieval
Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
Ben Carterette, Praveen Chandar
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TREC
2003
15 years 5 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee
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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Retrievability: an evaluation measure for higher order information access tasks
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay
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WSDM
2012
ACM
309views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
13 years 11 months ago
Mining contrastive opinions on political texts using cross-perspective topic model
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
Yi Fang, Luo Si, Naveen Somasundaram, Zhengtao Yu
ICDIM
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Exploiting multi-evidence from multiple user's interests to personalizing information retrieval
The goal of personalization in information retrieval is to tailor the search engine results to the specific goals, preferences and general interests of the users. We propose a no...
Lynda Tamine-Lechani, Mohand Boughanem, Nesrine Ze...