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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Scalable collaborative filtering using cluster-based smoothing
Memory-based approaches for collaborative filtering identify the similarity between two users by comparing their ratings on a set of items. In the past, the memory-based approache...
Gui-Rong Xue, Chenxi Lin, Qiang Yang, Wensi Xi, Hu...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Bias and the limits of pooling
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On-line spam filter fusion
We show that a set of independently developed spam filters may be combined in simple ways to provide substantially better filtering than any of the individual filters. The resu...
Thomas R. Lynam, Gordon V. Cormack, David R. Cheri...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Strict and vague interpretation of XML-retrieval queries
Structural hints in XML-retrieval queries can be used to specify both the granularity of the search result (the target element) and where in a document to search (support elements...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas