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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Chung Tong Lee, Vishwa Vinay, Eduarda Mendes Rodri...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
Understanding the extent to which people'ssearch behaviors differ in terms of the interaction flow and information targeted is important in designing interfaces to help World...
Ryen W. White, Steven M. Drucker
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking
Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Homeviews: peer-to-peer middleware for personal data sharing applications
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
Paul McNamee, Charles K. Nicholas, James Mayfield