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NAR
2011
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12 years 10 months ago
The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored
An essential prerequisite for any systems-level understanding of cellular functions is to correctly uncover and annotate all functional interactions among proteins in the cell. To...
Damian Szklarczyk, Andrea Franceschini, Michael Ku...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani