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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic model for contextual retrieval
Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for facilitating many important applications such as mobile search, personalized search, PC troubleshooting, etc. Despite of its impor...
Ji-Rong Wen, Ni Lao, Wei-Ying Ma
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Xiaobing Xue, Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft
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CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A framework for selective query expansion
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
220
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CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Approaches to Collection Selection and Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Yves Rasolofo, Faiza Abbaci, Jacques Savoy
SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
From Reading to Retrieval: Freeform Ink Annotations as Queries
User interfaces for digital libraries tend to focus on retrieval: users retrieve documents online, but then print them out and work with them on paper. One reason for printing doc...
Gene Golovchinsky, Morgan N. Price, Bill N. Schili...