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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to rank with partially-labeled data
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Web derived pronunciations for spoken term detection
Indexing and retrieval of speech content in various forms such as broadcast news, customer care data and on-line media has gained a lot of interest for a wide range of application...
Dogan Can, Erica Cooper, Arnab Ghoshal, Martin Jan...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirk...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Searching blogs and news: a study on popular queries
Blog/news search engines are very important channels to reach information about the real-time happenings. In this paper, we study the popular queries collected over one year perio...
Aixin Sun, Meishan Hu, Ee-Peng Lim