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SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document “snippets” returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document cluste...
Oren Zamir, Oren Etzioni
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Advantages of Query Biased Summaries in Information Retrieval
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
Anastasios Tombros, Mark Sanderson
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Boosting and Rocchio Applied to Text Filtering
We discuss two learning algorithms for text filtering: modified Rocchio and a boosting algorithm called AdaBoost. We show how both algorithms can be adapted to maximize any gene...
Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer, Amit Singhal
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
Abstract Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers b...
Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Modeling and Combining Evidence Provided by Document Relationships Using Probabilistic Argumentation Systems
Previous research has shown that hypertext links may be a useful source of evidence for document contents and relevance, but these evidence are rather difficult to represent and co...
Justin Picard
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Fast Searching on Compressed Text Allowing Errors
Abstract We present a fast compression and decompression scheme for natural language texts that allows e cient and exible string matching by searching the compressed text directly....
Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Zivi...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley