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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A web-based kernel function for measuring the similarity of short text snippets
Determining the similarity of short text snippets, such as search queries, works poorly with traditional document similarity measures (e.g., cosine), since there are often few, if...
Mehran Sahami, Timothy D. Heilman
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...
TREC
2000
13 years 9 months ago
TREC-9 CLIR at CUHK: Disambiguation by Similarity Values Between Adjacent Words
We investigated the dictionary-based query translation method combining the translation disambiguation process using statistic cooccurrence information trained from the provided c...
Honglan Jin, Kam-Fai Wong
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
An information retrieval approach to spelling suggestion
In this paper, we present a two-step language-independent spelling suggestion system. In the first step, candidate suggestions are generated using an Information Retrieval(IR) ap...
Sai Krishna, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma
SIGIR
1996
ACM
14 years 23 hour ago
Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Architecture for Information Retrieval
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
Brendon Cahoon, Kathryn S. McKinley