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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
IADIS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Relational databases versus information retrieval systems: A case study
In this paper we present our evaluations of using an Information Retrieval library in a commercial employment website with over 300,000 searches a day. Comparison of existing rela...
Ozgur Yilmazel, Burcu Yurekli, Baris Yilmazel, Ahm...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Heuristic Methods for Reducing Errors of Geographic Named Entities Learned by Bootstrapping
Abstract. One of issues in the bootstrapping for named entity recognition is how to control annotation errors introduced at every iteration. In this paper, we present several heuri...
Seungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee
WWIC
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Reliable Geographical Multicast Routing in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) offer a large number of new potential applications without relying on significant infrastructure. Many of these applications benefit from multi-h...
Maria Kihl, Mihail L. Sichitiu, Ted Ekeroth, Micha...