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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval
Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer, Seyed ...
RIAO
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information
The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Fidel Cacheda
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Selectively diversifying web search results
Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Probabilistic latent query analysis for combining multiple retrieval sources
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
A Multi-Agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer Based Information Retrieval System
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...