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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A system for finding biological entities that satisfy certain conditions from texts
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Wei Zhou, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
UIUC in HARD 2004--Passage Retrieval Using HMMs
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Score adjustment for correction of pooling bias
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...
William Webber, Laurence A. F. Park
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On the design and evaluation of a multi-dimensional approach to information retrieval
We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito