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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
UIST
1998
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Graphical Query Specification and Dynamic Result Previews for a Digital Library
Textual query languages based on Boolean logic are common amongst the search facilities of on-line information repositories. However, there is evidence to suggest that the syntact...
Steve Jones
ACMSE
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
AVARI: animated virtual agent retrieving information
Avari is a virtual receptionist for the Computer Science department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her components include background subtraction to detect a per...
Lauren Cairco, Dale-Marie Wilson, Vicky Fowler, Mo...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Clickthrough-based translation models for web search: from word models to phrase models
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Jian-Yun Nie