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GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Mining the web to detect place names
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B...
VCIP
2003
126views Communications» more  VCIP 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Media handling for visual information retrieval in VizIR
This paper describes how the handling of visual media objects is implemented in the visual information retrieval project VizIR. Essentially, four areas are concerned: media access...
Horst Eidenberger
TREC
2003
13 years 10 months ago
UMBC at TREC 12
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
WSDM
2009
ACM
188views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Is Wikipedia link structure different?
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen