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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A general markov framework for page importance computation
We propose a General Markov Framework for computing page importance. Under the framework, a Markov Skeleton Process is used to model the random walk conducted by the web surfer on...
Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, Taifeng Wang, Ha...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
Paul McNamee, Charles K. Nicholas, James Mayfield
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF?
When investigating alternative estimates for term discriminativeness, we discovered that relevance information and idf are much closer related than formulated in classical literat...
Arjen P. de Vries, Thomas Rölleke
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Overview of WebCLEF 2005
We describe WebCLEF, the multilingual web track, that was introduced at CLEF 2005. We provide details of the tasks, the topics, and the results of WebCLEF participants. The mixed ...
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maart...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges