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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Will this #hashtag be popular tomorrow?
Hashtags are widely used in Twitter to define a shared context for events or topics. In this paper, we aim to predict hashtag popularity in near future (i.e., next day). Given a ...
Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, Gao Cong
DOCENG
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Managing syntactic variation in text retrieval
Information Retrieval systems are limited by the linguistic variation of language. The use of Natural Language Processing techniques to manage this problem has been studied for a ...
Jesús Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodr&iac...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements
The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking ...
Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months 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
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai