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IPM
2008
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Adapting information retrieval systems to user queries
Users enter queries that are short as well as long. The aim of this work is to evaluate techniques that can enable information retrieval (IR) systems to automatically adapt to per...
Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan
CSL
2004
Springer
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HyperLex: lexical cartography for information retrieval
This article describes an algorithm called HyperLex that is capable of automatically determining word uses in a textbase without recourse to a dictionary. The algorithm makes use ...
Jean Véronis
FLAIRS
2003
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Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval with Graph-Based Qualitative Reference Models
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
Thomas Vögele, Christoph Schlieder
FLAIRS
2000
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Fundamental Properties of the Core Matching Functions for Information Retrieval
Traditional benchmarking methods for information retrieval (IR) are based on experimental performance evaluation. Although the metrics precision and recall can measure the perform...
Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong, Peter Bruza, Chun Hung C...
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork