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ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
From bursty patterns to bursty facts: The effectiveness of temporal text mining for news
Many document collections are by nature dynamic, evolving as the topics or events they describe change. The goal of temporal text mining is to discover bursty patterns and to ident...
Ilija Subasic, Bettina Berendt
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Event threading within news topics
With the overwhelming volume of online news available today, there is an increasing need for automatic techniques to analyze and present news to the user in a meaningful and effi...
Ramesh Nallapati, Ao Feng, Fuchun Peng, James Alla...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Using parsimonious language models on web data
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Rianne Kaptein, Rongmei Li, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jaap ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Exploring Probabilistic Toponym Resolution for Geographical Information Retrieval
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...