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ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
Rawia Awadallah, Andreas Rauber
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic Score Normalization for Rank Aggregation
Abstract. Rank aggregation is a pervading operation in IR technology. We hypothesize that the performance of score-based aggregation may be affected by artificial, usually meaningl...
Miriam Fernández, David Vallet, Pablo Caste...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Generating Search Term Variants for Text Collections with Historic Spellings
In this paper, we describe a new approach for retrieval in texts with non-standard spelling, which is important for historic texts in English or German. For this purpose, we presen...
Andrea Ernst-Gerlach, Norbert Fuhr
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection
Current research in the field of automatic plagiarism detection for text documents focuses on algorithms that compare plagiarized documents against potential original documents. Th...
Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Benno Stein
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Morphological Variation of Arabic Queries
Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries ...
Asaad Alberair, Mark Sanderson
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Lexical Entailment for Information Retrieval
Abstract. Textual Entailment has recently been proposed as an application independent task of recognising whether the meaning of one text may be inferred from another. This is pote...
Stéphane Clinchant, Cyril Goutte, Ér...
ECIS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
The overconfidence effect and IT professionals
Information Technology has become a core activity in most, if not all, corporations. Although IT managers continue to be under-represented in executive management, the very centra...
Glen L. Van der Vyver
ECIS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Business architecture: a new paradigm to relate e-business strategy to ICT
In this paper we address the concept of business architecture. We explain the concept and, based on a case study, discuss its relevance, operation, relationship with strategy and ...
Gerrit Versteeg, Harry Bouwman
ECIS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Perceived risk and trust associated with purchasing at electronic marketplaces
Understanding consumer behavior is of vital importance to consumer oriented e-business models today. In this paper we report on a study into the relationships between consumer per...
Tibert Verhagen, Yao-Hua Tan
ECIS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Formulating an organizational knowledge strategy: the influence of existing IT infrastructure
This paper questions the influence of a pre-existing information technology (IT) infrastructure on the formulation of an organizational knowledge strategy. We draw on a classifica...
Krishna Venkitachalam, Rens Scheepers