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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Rib...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Active relevance feedback for difficult queries
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
IPM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Query-level loss functions for information retrieval
Many machine learning technologies such as support vector machines, boosting, and neural networks have been applied to the ranking problem in information retrieval. However, since...
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng W...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella