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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Improving stemming for Arabic information retrieval: light stemming and co-occurrence analysis
Arabic, a highly inflected language, requires good stemming for effective information retrieval, yet no standard approach to stemming has emerged. We developed several light stemm...
Leah S. Larkey, Lisa Ballesteros, Margaret E. Conn...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
JUCS
2002
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Instance Cooperative Memory to Improve Query Expansion in Information Retrieval Systems
The main goal of this research is to improve Information Retrieval Systems by enabling them to generate search outcomes that are relevant and customized to each specific user. Our ...
Lobna Jeribi, Béatrice Rumpler
JASIS
1998
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Speech Recognition for a Digital Video Library
The standard method for making the full content of audio and video material searchable and is to annotate it with humangenerated meta-data that describes the content in a way that...
Michael J. Witbrock, Alexander G. Hauptmann
IWC
1998
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How many relevances in information retrieval?
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...
Stefano Mizzaro
CAS
1999
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Towards a Logical Reconstruction of Information Retrieval Theory
We here expand on a previous paper concerning the role of logic in information retrieval (IR) modelling. In that paper, among other things, we had pointed out how different ways of...
Fabrizio Sebastiani
IPM
2002
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14 years 4 days ago
Document organization using Kohonen's algorithm
The classi
Vicente P. Guerrero Bote, Félix de Moya Ane...
AI
1999
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence
This paper addresses the relations between information retrieval (IR) and AI. It examines document retrieval, summarising its essential features and illustrating the state of its ...
Karen Sparck Jones
CAI
1998
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Information Retrieval, Imaging and Probabilistic Logic
Abstract. Imaging is a class of non-Bayesian methods for the revision of probability density functions originally proposed as a semantics for conditional logic. Two of these revisi...
Fabrizio Sebastiani
JCST
2000
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14 years 8 days ago
Distributed and Cooperative Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web
: A mass of heterogeneous, distributed and dynamic information on the World Wide Web (the Web) has resulted in "information overload". It's an important and urgent r...
Jicheng Wang, Xiangyu Jin, Yang Xiaojiang, Fuyan Z...