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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
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
COSIT
2001
Springer
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13 years 12 months ago
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
IR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...