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SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
SP
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
Ian Goldberg
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou
ACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Wikipedia as Sense Inventory to Improve Diversity in Web Search Results
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
Celina Santamaría, Julio Gonzalo, Javier Ar...
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The MedGIFT Group at ImageCLEF 2009
MedGIFT is a medical imaging research group of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2004, the medGIFT group has participated in the Ima...
Xin Zhou, Ivan Eggel, Henning Müller