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2011
13 years 4 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...
COSIT
2001
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Structural relevance: a common basis for the evaluation of structured document retrieval
This paper presents a unified framework for the evaluation of a range of structured document retrieval (SDR) approaches and tasks. The framework is based on a model of tree retrie...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Gabriella Kazai...
ECIR
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Relevance-Feedback Approach to Text Retrieval
Abstract. Relevance feedback (RF) has been an effective query modification approach to improving the performance of information retrieval (IR) by interactively asking a user whet...
Zhao Xu, Xiaowei Xu, Kai Yu, Volker Tresp
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Measuring Generality of Documents
Most traditional Information Retrieval (IR) systems, including web search engines, operationalize “relevant” as the word frequency in a document of a set of keywords. Because ...
Hyun Woong Shin, Eduard H. Hovy, Dennis McLeod, La...