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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Combining keyword search and forms for ad hoc querying of databases
A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
TREC
1998
13 years 9 months ago
ACSys TREC-7 Experiments
Experiments relating to TREC-7 Ad Hoc, HP and VLC tasks are described and results reported. Minor re nements of last year's Ad Hoc methods do not appear to have resulted in w...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Using Only Wikipedia
This paper presents WikiTranslate, a system which performs query translation for cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using only Wikipedia to obtain translations. Queries ar...
Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Ad hoc IR: not much room for improvement
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Andrew Trotman, David Keeler
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra