IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Collaborative filtering is a general technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items for a particular user. Three different co...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
The present research studies the impact of decompounding and two different word normalization methods, stemming and lemmatization, on monolingual and bilingual retrieval. The langu...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Technical term translations are important for cross-lingual information retrieval. In many languages, new technical terms have a common origin rendered with different spelling of ...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Search facilitated with agglomerative hierarchical clustering methods was studied in a collection of Finnish newspaper articles (N = 53,893). To allow quick experiments, clustering...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
When searching for health information, results quality can be judged against available scientific evidence: Do search engines return advice consistent with evidence based medicine...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks integrate autonomous computing resources without requiring a central coordinating authority, which makes them a potentially robust and scalabl...
INFFUS
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
In previous papers, we have presented a logic-based framework based on fusion rules for merging structured news reports [Hun00, Hun02b, Hun02a, HS03, HS04]. Structured news report...