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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval
Modeling term dependence has been shown to have a significant positive impact on retrieval. Current models, however, use sequential term dependencies, leading to an increased que...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Guiding Queries to Information Sources with InfoBeacons
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. ...
Brian F. Cooper
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
VLDB
2005
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Mediators over taxonomy-based information sources
Abstract. We propose a mediator model for providing integrated and unified access to multiple taxonomy-based sources. Each source comprises a taxonomy and a database that indexes o...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constant...
ITICSE
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The backwash effect on SQL skills grading
This paper examines the effect of grading approaches for SQL query formulation on students’ learning strategies. The way that students are graded in a subject has a significant ...
Julia Coleman Prior, Raymond Lister