Sciweavers

1247 search results - page 186 / 250
» Predicting query performance on the web
Sort
View
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
157views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Asynchronous view maintenance for VLSD databases
The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...
IR
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Restricted inflectional form generation in management of morphological keyword variation
Word form normalization through lemmatization or stemming is a standard procedure in information retrieval because morphological variation needs to be accounted for and several la...
Kimmo Kettunen, Eija Airio, Kalervo Järvelin
DEBS
2011
ACM
13 years 14 days ago
Declarative data-driven coordination
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...
Johannes Gehrke