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DEBU
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Indexing and Retrieval of Historical Aggregate Information about Moving Objects
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication ...
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mam...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
AIME
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Helping Physicians to Organize Guidelines Within Conceptual Hierarchies
Abstract. Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are increasingly common in clinical medicine for prescribing a set of rules that a physician should follow. Recent interest is in accu...
Diego Sona, Paolo Avesani, Robert Moskovitch
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A cross-lingual framework for monolingual biomedical information retrieval
An important challenge for biomedical information retrieval (IR) is dealing with the complex, inconsistent and ambiguous biomedical terminology. Frequently, a concept-based repres...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jo...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty