SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Generative models such as statistical language modeling have been widely studied in the task of expert search to model the relationship between experts and their expertise indicat...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
We consider blog feed search: identifying relevant blogs for a given topic. An individual’s search behavior often involves a combination of exploratory behavior triggered by sal...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms, used to build webbased recommender systems, are often evaluated in terms of how accurately they predict user ratings. However, current eva...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
We propose a method to predict a user’s favourite locations in a city, based on his Flickr geotags in other cities. We define a similarity between the geotag distributions of t...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Web-based social systems enable new community-based opportunities for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services like search and advert...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
In the last years Blog Search has been a new exciting task in Information Retrieval. The presence of user generated information with valuable opinions makes this field of huge in...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Music information retrieval (MIR) holds great promise as a technology for managing large music archives. One of the key components of MIR that has been actively researched into is...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...