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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
KDD
2005
ACM
177views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 9 months ago
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Effective Time Ratio: A Measure for Web Search Engines with Document Snippets
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
Jing He, Baihan Shu, Xiaoming Li, Hongfei Yan
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
249views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Active knowledge: dynamically enriching RDF knowledge bases by web services
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities and the advances in information extraction have enabled the construction of large knowledge bases using the RDF data model to re...
Nicoleta Preda, Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchane...