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SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
An exploration of ranking heuristics in mobile local search
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Yuanhua Lv, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Qiang Wu
WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 6 months ago
Effective query formulation with multiple information sources
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Parameterized concept weighting in verbose queries
The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the query concepts (e.g., terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. I...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
RECSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Content-based recommendation in social tagging systems
We present and evaluate various content-based recommendation models that make use of user and item profiles defined in terms of weighted lists of social tags. The studied approach...
Iván Cantador, Alejandro Bellogín, D...
LREC
2008
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14 years 18 days ago
Combining Multiple Models for Speech Information Retrieval
In this article we present a method for combining different information retrieval models in order to increase the retrieval performance in a Speech Information Retrieval task. The...
Muath Alzghool, Diana Inkpen
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
A Statistical View of Binned Retrieval Models
Many traditional information retrieval models, such as BM25 and language modeling, give good retrieval effectiveness, but can be difficult to implement efficiently. Recently, docum...
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, W. Bruce Croft