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SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An investigation of linguistic features and clustering algorithms for topical document clustering
We investigate four hierarchical clustering methods (single-link, complete-link, groupwise-average, and single-pass) and two linguistically motivated text features (noun phrase he...
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Luis Gravano, Ankineed...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
SWAMI: a framework for collaborative filtering algorithm development and evaluation
We present a Java-based framework, SWAMI (Shared Wisdom through the Amalgamation of Many Interpretations) for building and studying collaborative filtering systems. SWAMI consist...
Danyel Fisher, Kris Hildrum, Jason I. Hong, Mark W...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Hierarchical classification of Web content
This paper explores the use of hierarchical structure for classifying a large, heterogeneous collection of web content. The hierarchical structure is initially used to train diffe...
Susan T. Dumais, Hao Chen
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Topical locality in the Web
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which th...
Brian D. Davison
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Interactive Internet search: keyword, directory and query reformulation mechanisms compared
This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google search engine), directory-based search (via Yahoo) and phrasebased query reformul...
Peter Bruza, Robert McArthur, Simon Dennis
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
OCELOT: a system for summarizing Web pages
Abstract We introduce OCELOT, a prototype system for automatically generating the “gist” of a web page by summarizing it. Although most text summarization research to date has ...
Adam L. Berger, Vibhu O. Mittal
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...