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ECIR
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Beyond the Web: Retrieval in Social Information Spaces
We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
ECIR
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Declarative DB-Powered Approach to IR
We present a prototype system using array comprehensions to bridge the gap between databases and information retrieval. It allows researchers to express their retrieval models in t...
Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vries
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
CSREAPSC
2006
14 years 1 months ago
A Chat-bot based Multimodal Virtual Guide for Cultural Heritage Tours
- The use of a PDA with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval functionalities can help people in visiting an historical site in a natural manner instead of traditional audio/visual...
Antonella Santangelo, Agnese Augello, Antonio Gent...
APCCM
2004
14 years 1 months ago
An Adaptive Information Retrieval System Based on Associative Networks
In this paper we present a multilingual information retrieval system that provides access to Tourism information by exploiting the intuitiveness of natural language. In particular...
Helmut Berger, Michael Dittenbach, Dieter Merkl
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
ACL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions
This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
Jimmy J. Lin
ADCS
2004
14 years 1 months ago
NLPX - An XML-IR System with a Natural Language Interface
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
Alan Woodley, Shlomo Geva
RIAO
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Collective Annotation: Perspectives for Information Retrieval Improvement
Nowadays we enter the Web 2.0 era where people’s participation is a key principle. In this context, collective annotations enable to share and discuss readers’ feedback with r...
Guillaume Cabanac, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment...