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IR
2007
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Searching strategies for the Bulgarian language
This paper reports on the underlying IR problems encountered when indexing and searching with the Bulgarian language. For this language we propose a general light stemmer and demon...
Jacques Savoy
IR
2007
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Learning-based summarisation of XML documents
Documents formatted in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are available in collections of various document types. In this paper, we present an approach for the summarisation of XML d...
Massih-Reza Amini, Anastasios Tombros, Nicolas Usu...
IR
2007
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Modeling context through domain ontologies
Traditional information retrieval systems aim at satisfying most users for most of their searches, leaving aside the context in which the search takes place. We propose to model tw...
Nathalie Hernandez, Josiane Mothe, Claude Chrismen...
IR
2007
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Lightweight natural language text compression
Variants of Huffman codes where words are taken as the source symbols are currently the most attractive choices to compress natural language text databases. In particular, Tagged...
Nieves R. Brisaboa, Antonio Fariña, Gonzalo...
JMLR
2008
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Coordinate Descent Method for Large-scale L2-loss Linear Support Vector Machines
Linear support vector machines (SVM) are useful for classifying large-scale sparse data. Problems with sparse features are common in applications such as document classification a...
Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Chih-Jen Lin
IR
2006
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Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
IR
2006
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A relatedness analysis of government regulations using domain knowledge and structural organization
The complexity and diversity of government regulations make understanding and retrieval of regulations a non-trivial task. One of the issues is the existence of multiple sources o...
Gloria T. Lau, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
IR
2006
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New Directions in Question Answering
Saliha Azzam, Kevin Humphreys