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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
A probabilistic method for inferring preferences from clicks
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
An efficient method for using machine translation technologies in cross-language patent search
Topics in prior-art patent search are typically full patent applications and relevant items are patents often taken from sources in different languages. Cross language patent retr...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
The quality of the XML web
We collect evidence to answer the following question: Is the quality of the XML documents found on the web sufficient to apply XML technology like XQuery, XPath and XSLT? XML coll...
Steven Grijzenhout, Maarten Marx
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Towards feature selection in network
Traditional feature selection methods assume that the data are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). In real world, tremendous amounts of data are distributed in a net...
Quanquan Gu, Jiawei Han
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Keyword search over RDF graphs
Large knowledge bases consisting of entities and relationships between them have become vital sources of information for many applications. Most of these knowledge bases adopt the...
Shady Elbassuoni, Roi Blanco
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Worker types and personality traits in crowdsourcing relevance labels
Crowdsourcing platforms offer unprecedented opportunities for creating evaluation benchmarks, but suffer from varied output quality from crowd workers who possess different levels...
Gabriella Kazai, Jaap Kamps, Natasa Milic-Frayling
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
ReDRIVE: result-driven database exploration through recommendations
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...
Marina Drosou, Evaggelia Pitoura
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Partial duplicate detection for large book collections
A framework is presented for discovering partial duplicates in large collections of scanned books with optical character recognition (OCR) errors. Each book in the collection is r...
Ismet Zeki Yalniz, Ethem F. Can, R. Manmatha