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WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
WSDM
2010
ACM
203views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Query Reformulation Using Anchor Text
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have been studied as a method of capturing user intent and improving retrieval effectiveness. The evaluation of these techniques...
Van Dang, Bruce W. Croft
WSDM
2009
ACM
188views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Is Wikipedia link structure different?
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen
ADC
2009
Springer
140views Database» more  ADC 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Score Aggregation Techniques in Retrieval Experimentation
Comparative evaluations of information retrieval systems are based on a number of key premises, including that representative topic sets can be created, that suitable relevance ju...
Sri Devi Ravana, Alistair Moffat
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An improved markov random field model for supporting verbose queries
Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...
Matthew Lease