Sciweavers

SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
User comments for news recommendation in social media
Reading and Commenting online news is becoming a common user behavior in social media. Discussion in the form of comments following news postings can be effectively facilitated if...
Jia Wang, Qing Li, Yuanzhu Peter Chen
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Multilingual PRF: english lends a helping hand
In this paper, we present a novel approach to Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) called Multilingual PRF (MultiPRF). The key idea is to harness multilinguality. Given a query in a la...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman, Pushpak Bh...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Active learning for ranking through expected loss optimization
Bo Long, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, Yi Chang, Zha...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Prototype hierarchy based clustering for the categorization and navigation of web collections
This paper presents a novel prototype hierarchy based clustering (PHC) framework for the organization of web collections. It solves simultaneously the problem of categorizing web ...
Zhaoyan Ming, Kai Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
Adish Singla, Ryen White, Jeff Huang
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Hierarchical pitman-yor language model for information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Clicked phrase document expansion for sponsored search ad retrieval
We present a document expansion approach that uses Conditional Random Field (CRF) segmentation to automatically extract salient phrases from ad titles. We then supplement the ad d...
Dustin Hillard, Chris Leggetter