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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Hybrid results merging
The problem of results merging in distributed information retrieval environments has been approached by two different directions in research. Estimation approaches attempt to cal...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
DEXAW
2007
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Regression Relevance Models for Data Fusion
Data fusion has been investigated by many researchers in the information retrieval community and has become an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness. In this p...
Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Sally I. McClean
TREC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
The Bias Problem and Language Models in Adaptive Filtering
We used the YFILTER filtering system for experiments on updating profiles and setting thresholds. We developed a new method of using language models for updating profiles that is ...
Yi Zhang 0001, James P. Callan
ICML
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
BoltzRank: learning to maximize expected ranking gain
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
Maksims Volkovs, Richard S. Zemel
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 8 months ago
Statistical distributions of optimal global alignment scores of random protein sequences
Background: The inference of homology from statistically significant sequence similarity is a central issue in sequence alignments. So far the statistical distribution function un...
Hongxia Pang, Jiaowei Tang, Su-Shing Chen, Shiheng...