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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho
KDD
2009
ACM
379views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 13 days ago
MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization
This paper aims at discovering community structure in rich media social networks, through analysis of time-varying, multi-relational data. Community structure represents the laten...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Maximal termsets as a query structuring mechanism
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Bruno Pôssas, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Rib...
GECCO
2007
Springer
163views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Discovering event evidence amid massive, dynamic datasets
Automated event extraction remains a very difficult challenge requiring information analysts to manually identify key events of interest within massive, dynamic data. Many techniq...
Robert M. Patton, Thomas E. Potok