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2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Enhancing topic tracking with temporal information
In this paper, we propose a new strategy with time granularity reasoning for utilizing temporal information in topic tracking. Compared with previous ones, our work has four disti...
Baoli Li, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
One-sided measures for evaluating ranked retrieval effectiveness with spontaneous conversational speech
Early speech retrieval experiments focused on news broadcasts, for which adequate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy could be obtained. Like newspapers, news broadcasts a...
Baolong Liu, Douglas W. Oard
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
Action modeling: language models that predict query behavior
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
G. Craig Murray, Jimmy J. Lin, Abdur Chowdhury