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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A system for finding biological entities that satisfy certain conditions from texts
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Wei Zhou, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
JCDL
2010
ACM
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14 years 13 days ago
Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
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