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TREC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
University of Glasgow at TREC 2004: Experiments in Web, Robust, and Terabyte Tracks with Terrier
With our participation in TREC2004, we test Terrier, a modular and scalable Information Retrieval framework, in three tracks. For the mixed query task of the Web track, we employ ...
Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Iadh Ounis
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Retrieval effectiveness of an ontology-based model for information selection
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of nontextual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential for...
Latifur Khan, Dennis McLeod, Eduard H. Hovy
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Hashed samples: selectivity estimators for set similarity selection queries
We study selectivity estimation techniques for set similarity queries. A wide variety of similarity measures for sets have been proposed in the past. In this work we concentrate o...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Xiaohui Yu, Nick Koudas, ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Yang Xu, Gareth J. F. Jones, Bin Wang
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Robust location search from text queries
Robust, global, address geocoding is challenging because there is no single address format that applies to all geographies, and in any case, users may not restrict themselves to w...
Vibhuti S. Sengar, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Samar...