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WSDM
2010
ACM
194views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Ranking with Query-Dependent Loss for Web Search
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hongyuan Zha
ECIR
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling Information Retrieval with Probabilistic Argumentation Systems
Probabilistic Argumentation Systems (PAS) are a technique for representing uncertainty both symbolically and numerically. It is shown that this technique, which combines symbolic ...
Justin Picard, Rolf Haenni
ACL
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Decompounding query keywords from compounding languages
Splitting compound words has proved to be useful in areas such as Machine Translation, Speech Recognition or Information Retrieval (IR). Furthermore, real-time IR systems (such as...
Enrique Alfonseca, Slaven Bilac, Stefan Pharies
ACSC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel
ICDE
2007
IEEE
152views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
A Tool for Information Retrieval Research in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems
We introduce IR-Wire, a tool for information retrieval research and education in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Built on top of LimeWire's implementation of the popular G...
Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Dongmei Jia, Ophir ...