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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia
This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of b...
David N. Milne, Ian H. Witten, David M. Nichols
ERCIMDL
2007
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Thesaurus-Based Feedback to Support Mixed Search and Browsing Environments
We propose and evaluate a query expansion mechanism that supports searching and browsing in collections of annotated documents. Based on generative language models, our feedback me...
Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke
SPIRE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Extending Weighting Models with a Term Quality Measure
Abstract. Weighting models use lexical statistics, such as term frequencies, to derive term weights, which are used to estimate the relevance of a document to a query. Apart from t...
Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis
BIRD
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Ontology-Based MEDLINE Document Classification
Abstract. An increasing and overwhelming amount of biomedical information is available in the research literature mainly in the form of free-text. Biologists need tools that automa...
Fabrice Camous, Stephen Blott, Alan F. Smeaton
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette