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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, Sirvan Yahyaei
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Smoothing clickthrough data for web search ranking
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Jianfeng Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, Kefeng Deng, Jian...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Risk minimization and language modeling in text retrieval dissertation abstract
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
ChengXiang Zhai
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Amharic-English Information Retrieval with Pseudo Relevance Feedback
We describe cross language retrieval experiments using Amharic queries and English language document collection from our participation in the bilingual ad hoc track at the CLEF 20...
Atelach Alemu Argaw