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WSDM
2010
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Towards Recency Ranking in Web Search
In web search, recency ranking refers to ranking documents by relevance which takes freshness into account. In this paper, we propose a retrieval system which automatically detect...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne,...
AAAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Topic Segmentation Algorithms for Text Summarization and Passage Retrieval: An Exhaustive Evaluation
In order to solve problems of reliability of systems based on lexical repetition and problems of adaptability of languagedependent systems, we present a context-based topic segmen...
Gaël Dias, Elsa Alves, José Gabriel Pe...
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees
IPM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
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
CLIN
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus
This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch te...
Djoerd Hiemstra, David van Leeuwen