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TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
HARD Track Overview in TREC 2004 - High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents
The HARD track of TREC 2004 aims to improve the accuracy of information retrieval through the use of three techniques: (1) query metadata that better describes the information nee...
James Allan
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Fact and Document Retrieval with Spreading Activation for Semantic Desktop Search
Abstract. The Semantic Desktop is a means to support users in Personal Information Management (PIM). It provides an excellent test bed for Semantic Web technology: resources (e. g....
Kinga Schumacher, Michael Sintek, Leo Sauermann
VLDB
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Peer-to-Peer Similarity Search in Metric Spaces
This paper addresses the efficient processing of similarity queries in metric spaces, where data is horizontally distributed across a P2P network. The proposed approach does not r...
Christos Doulkeridis, Akrivi Vlachou, Yannis Kotid...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Guiding Queries to Information Sources with InfoBeacons
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. ...
Brian F. Cooper
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