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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Personalizing information retrieval for multi-session tasks: the roles of task stage and task type
Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of document usefulness, with contextual factors such as the user’s task needing to...
Jingjing Liu, Nicholas J. Belkin
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
IPM
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
Adapting a diagnostic problem-solving model to information retrieval
In this paper, a competition-based connectionist model for diagnostic problem-solving is adapted to information retrieval. In this model, we treat documents as \disorders" an...
Inien Syu, Sheau-Dong Lang
IPM
2002
92views more  IPM 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
The effectiveness of query-specific hierarchic clustering in information retrieval
Hierarchic document clustering has been widely applied to Information Retrieval (IR) on the grounds of its potential improved effectiveness over inverted file search. However, pre...
Anastasios Tombros, Robert Villa, C. J. van Rijsbe...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland