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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Concept-based interactive query expansion
Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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14 years 3 days ago
Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
William W. Cohen
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mina Saleeb
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Incorporating query difference for learning retrieval functions in world wide web search
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...