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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Faster top-k document retrieval using block-max indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
JCDL
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms
Currently in document retrieval there are many algorithms each with different strengths and weakness. There is some difficulty, however, in evaluating the impact of the test quer...
Chris Jordan, Carolyn R. Watters, Qigang Gao
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
AMR
2006
Springer
119views Multimedia» more  AMR 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
The Potential of User Feedback Through the Iterative Refining of Queries in an Image Retrieval System
Inaccurate or ambiguous expressions in queries lead to poor results in information retrieval. We assume that iterative user feedback can improve the quality of queries. To this end...
Maher Ben Moussa, Marco Pasch, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pa...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Two-Stage Approach to Retrieving Answers for How-To Questions
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Ling Yin