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IR
2008
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An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
ADL
2000
Springer
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Effects of Word Recognition Errors in Spoken Query Processing
The effects of word recognition errors (WRE) in Spoken Document Retrieval have been well studied and well reported in recent Information Retrieval (IR) literature. Much less exper...
Fabio Crestani
JASIS
2006
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Written versus spoken queries: A qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis
This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from writ...
Fabio Crestani, Heather Du
SIGIR
2002
ACM
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Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity
Query ambiguity is a generally recognized problem, particularly in Web environments where queries are commonly only one or two words in length. In this study, we explore one techn...
James Allan, Hema Raghavan
STOC
2004
ACM
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Robust pcps of proximity, shorter pcps and applications to coding
We continue the study of the trade-off between the length of PCPs and their query complexity, establishing the following main results (which refer to proofs of satisfiability of c...
Eli Ben-Sasson, Oded Goldreich, Prahladh Harsha, M...