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ACG
2003
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Evaluation Function Tuning via Ordinal Correlation
Heuristic search effectiveness depends directly upon the quality of heuristic evaluations of states in the search space. We show why ordinal correlation is relevant to heuristic se...
Dave Gomboc, T. Anthony Marsland, Michael Buro
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Support Vector Machines for Query-focused Summarization trained and evaluated on Pyramid data
This paper presents the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to detect relevant information to be included in a queryfocused summary. Several SVMs are trained using information fr...
María Fuentes Fort, Enrique Alfonseca, Hora...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling expert finding as an absorbing random walk
We introduce a novel approach to expert finding based on multi-step relevance propagation from documents to related candidates. Relevance propagation is modeled with an absorbing ...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the effectiveness of term frequency histograms for supporting interactive web search tasks
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 21 hour ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...