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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Geometric and quantum methods for information retrieval
This paper reviews the recent developments in applying geometric and quantum mechanics methods for information retrieval and natural language processing. It discusses the interest...
Yaoyong Li, Hamish Cunningham
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Learning to rank at query-time using association rules
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
Ming-Feng Tsai, Yu-Ting Wang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
One of the central issues in learning to rank for information retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures used in i...
Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma
PRL
2006
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Exploring the use of latent topical information for statistical Chinese spoken document retrieval
Information retrieval which aims to provide people with easy access to all kinds of information is now becoming more and more emphasized. However, most approaches to information r...
Berlin Chen
ENGL
2007
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14 years 13 days ago
Semantic Information Retrieval: a return on experience
—In previous works, we have presented the advantages of using a domain ontology and annotations on information retrieval as well as the translation problems between languages wit...
R. Carolina Medina Ramírez
KES
2008
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Improving Text Summarization Using Noun Retrieval Techniques
Text Summarization and categorization have always been two of the most demanding information retrieval tasks. Deploying a generalized, multifunctional mechanism that produces good ...
Christos Bouras, Vassilis Tsogkas
JSW
2008
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A Task-oriented Approach to Search Engine Usability Studies
Usability is a multi-dimensional characteristic of a computer system. This paper focuses on usability as a measurement of interaction between the user and the system. The research ...
Isak Taksa, Amanda Spink, Robert Goldberg
JASIS
2006
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14 years 13 days ago
Web unit-based mining of homepage relationships
Abstract Homepages usually describe important semantic information about conceptual or physical entities, and are hence the main targets for searching and browsing. To facilitate s...
Aixin Sun, Ee-Peng Lim