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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Fast query expansion using approximations of relevance models
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Clarity re-visited
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
106views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Flood Little, Cache More: Effective Result-Reuse in P2P IR Systems
State-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2P IR) systems suffer from their lack of response time guarantee especially with scale. To address this issue, a number of tec...
Christian Zimmer, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Gerhard We...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
235views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Quality and efficiency in high dimensional nearest neighbor search
Nearest neighbor (NN) search in high dimensional space is an important problem in many applications. Ideally, a practical solution (i) should be implementable in a relational data...
Yufei Tao, Ke Yi, Cheng Sheng, Panos Kalnis