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TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
UMBC at TREC 12
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
TREC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Information Retrieval and Information Extraction in TREC Genomics 2007
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
Antonio Jimeno-Yepes, Piotr Pezik
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Hybrid index maintenance for growing text collections
We present a new family of hybrid index maintenance strategies to be used in on-line index construction for monotonically growing text collections. These new strategies improve up...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Brad L...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A reinforcement learning based distributed search algorithm for hierarchical peer-to-peer information retrieval systems
The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
Haizheng Zhang, Victor R. Lesser