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CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Re-ranking search results using query logs
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
CLEF
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
Bärbel Ripplinger
TREC
1994
15 years 7 months ago
Indexing Structures Derived from Syntax in TREC-3: System Description
: This paper describes an approach to information retrieval based on a syntactic analysis of the document texts and user queries, and from that analysis, the construction of tree s...
Alan F. Smeaton, Ruairi O'Donnell, Fergus Kelledy
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra