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CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Spoken Versus Written Queries for Mobile Information Access: An Experiment on Mandarin Chinese
As Chinese is not alphabetic and the input of Chinese characters into computer is still a difficult and unsolved problem, voice retrieval of information becomes apparently an imp...
Heather Du, Fabio Crestani
DEXA
2009
Springer
176views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
Analyzing Document Retrievability in Patent Retrieval Settings
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber
CORR
2011
Springer
173views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 5 months ago
Probability Based Clustering for Document and User Properties
Information Retrieval systems can be improved by exploiting context information such as user and document features. This article presents a model based on overlapping probabilistic...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel