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ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
A Bayesian Approach for Learning Document Type Relevance
Retrieval accuracy can be improved by considering which document type should be filtered out and which should be ranked higher in the result list. Hence, document type can be used...
Peter C. K. Yeung, Stefan Büttcher, Charles L...
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Searching Documents Based on Relevance and Type
This paper extends previous work on document retrieval and document type classification, addressing the problem of ‘typed search’. Specifically, given a query and a designated ...
Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, Yalou H...
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Incorporating Diversity and Density in Active Learning for Relevance Feedback
Abstract. Relevance feedback, which uses the terms in relevant documents to enrich the user’s initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performance. An assoc...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella, Yi Zhang 0001
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Feature- and Query-Based Table of Contents Generation for XML Documents
The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searche...
Zoltán Szlávik, Anastasios Tombros, ...
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Popularity Weighted Ranking for Academic Digital Libraries
Abstract. We propose a popularity weighted ranking algorithm for academic digital libraries that uses the popularity factor of a publication venue overcoming the limitations of imp...
Yang Sun, C. Lee Giles
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Enhancing Expert Search Through Query Modeling
An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...
Pavel Serdyukov, Sergey Chernov, Wolfgang Nejdl
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Examining Repetition in User Search Behavior
This paper describes analyses of the repeated use of search engines. It is shown that users commonly re-issue queries, either to examine search results deeply or simply to query ag...
Mark Sanderson, Susan T. Dumais
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
On Score Distributions and Relevance
We discuss the idea of modelling the statistical distributions of scores of documents, classified as relevant or non-relevant. Various specific combinations of standard statistic...
Stephen Robertson
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Multinomial Randomness Models for Retrieval with Document Fields
Document fields, such as the title or the headings of a document, offer a way to consider the structure of documents for retrieval. Most of the proposed approaches in the literatu...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Results Merging Algorithm Using Multiple Regression Models
: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...