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ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 25 days 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
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a model of understanding social search
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...
Brynn M. Evans, Ed H. Chi
INEX
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Field-Weighted XML Retrieval Based on BM25
This is the first year for the Centre for Interactive Systems Research participation of INEX. Based on a newly developed XML indexing and retrieval system on Okapi, we extend Robe...
Wei Lu, Stephen E. Robertson, Andrew MacFarlane
CONTEXT
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
WordSieve: A Method for Real-Time Context Extraction
Abstract. In order to be useful, intelligent information retrieval agents must provide their users with context-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, an algorithm fo...
Travis Bauer, David B. Leake