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WISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense
Although there are many papers examining ambiguity in Information Retrieval, this paper shows that there is a whole class of ambiguous word that past research has barely explored....
Mark Sanderson
SSD
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic Spatial Queries on Existentially Uncertain Data
We study the problem of answering spatial queries in databases where objects exist with some uncertainty and they are associated with an existential probability. The goal of a thre...
Xiangyuan Dai, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei...
JUCS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Ranking Retrieval Systems with Partial Relevance Judgements
: Some measures such as mean average precision and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precision and recall that are t...
Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani
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...