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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
159views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
GIS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Heuristic algorithms for route-search queries over geographical data
In a geographical route search, given search terms, the goal is to find an effective route that (1) starts at a given location, (2) ends at a given location, and (3) travels via...
Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra, Yehoshua Sagiv, Yerach...
VLDB
1998
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
14 years 2 months ago
Proximity Search in Databases
An information retrieval IR engine can rank documents based on textual proximityof keywords within each document. In this paper we apply this notion to search across an entire dat...
Roy Goldman, Narayanan Shivakumar, Suresh Venkatas...
FQAS
2009
Springer
142views Database» more  FQAS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query - An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Mont...