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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Automatically identifying localizable queries
Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Novel Approaches in Text Information Retrieval - Experiments in the Web Track of TREC 2004
: In this paper, we report our experiments in the mixed query task of the Web track for TREC 2004. We deal with the problem of ranking Web documents within a multicriteria framewor...
Mohamed Farah, Daniel Vanderpooten
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
One of the central issues in learning to rank for information retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures used in i...
Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma
TREC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Observations of Searchers: OHSU TREC 2001 Interactive Track
The goal of the TREC 2001 Interactive Track was to carry out observational experiments of Web-based searching to develop hypotheses for experiments in subsequent years. Each parti...
William R. Hersh, Lynetta Sacherek, Daniel Olson
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
Einat Amitay, Nadav Har'El, Ron Sivan, Aya Soffer