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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 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
13 years 5 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
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 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
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 6 days 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
14 years 19 hour 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...