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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Yang Xu, Gareth J. F. Jones, Bin Wang
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Smoothing clickthrough data for web search ranking
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Jianfeng Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, Kefeng Deng, Jian...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Fast nonparametric matrix factorization for large-scale collaborative filtering
With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, John D. Lafferty, Yihong Gon...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Reciprocal rank fusion outperforms condorcet and individual rank learning methods
Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), a simple method for combining the document rankings from multiple IR systems, consistently yields better results than any individual system, and bett...
Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan B&...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Visualizing the problems with the INEX topics
Topics form a crucial component of a test collection. We show, through visualization, that the INEX 2008 topics have shortcomings, which questions their validity for evaluating XM...
Andrew Trotman, Maria del Rocio Gomez Crisostomo, ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Global ranking by exploiting user clicks
It is now widely recognized that user interactions with search results can provide substantial relevance information on the documents displayed in the search results. In this pape...
Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng, Gui-...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Using wikipedia categories for ad hoc search
In this paper we explore the use of category information for ad hoc retrieval in Wikipedia. We show that techniques for entity ranking exploiting this category information can als...
Rianne Kaptein, Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen