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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Combining fields in known-item email search
Emails are examples of structured documents with various fields. These fields can be exploited to enhance the retrieval effectiveness of an Information Retrieval (IR) system th...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
TREC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
On Retrieving Legal Files: Shortening Documents and Weeding Out Garbage
This paper describes our participation in the TREC Legal experiments in 2007. We have applied novel normalization techniques that are designed to slightly favor longer documents i...
Scott Kulp, April Kontostathis
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
What can quantum theory bring to information retrieval
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
TKDE
2010
284views more  TKDE 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Semantic Similarity Computation between Terms Using Web Documents
Abstract— In this work, web-based metrics for semantic similarity computation between words or terms are presented and compared with the state-of-the-art. Starting from the funda...
Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan