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CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Data Sharing Through Query Translation in Autonomous Sources
We consider the problem of data sharing between autonomous data sources in an environment where constraints cannot be placed on the shared contents of sources. Our solutions rely ...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Marcelo Arenas
PVLDB
2010
110views more  PVLDB 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Read-Once Functions and Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases
Probabilistic databases hold promise of being a viable means for large-scale uncertainty management, increasingly needed in a number of real world applications domains. However, q...
Prithviraj Sen, Amol Deshpande, Lise Getoor
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Semantically Enhanced Term Frequency
In this paper, we complement the term frequency, which is used in many bag-of-words based information retrieval models, with information about the semantic relatedness of query and...
Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych