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CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Query Expansion Based on Divergence
In this paper we are mainly concerned with discussion of a formal model, based on the basic concept of divergence from information theory, for automatic query expansion. The basic...
D. Cai, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Joemon M. Jose
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Using Only Wikipedia
This paper presents WikiTranslate, a system which performs query translation for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using only Wikipedia to obtain translations. Queries ar...
Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with markov chain models
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
DL
1999
Springer
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14 years 28 days ago
A Patent Search and Classification System
We present a system for searching and classifying U.S. patent documents, based on Inquery. Patents are distributed through hundreds of collections, divided up by general area. The...
Leah S. Larkey
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Spatio-Textual Spreadsheets: Geotagging via Spatial Coherence
The spatio-textual spreadsheet is a conventional spreadsheet where spatial attribute values are specified textually. Techniques are presented to automatically find the textually-s...
Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling,...