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2008
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User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval
Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), a process in which searcher and system collaborate to find documents that satisfy an information need regardless of the la...
Douglas W. Oard, Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang
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2008
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Lexical cohesion and term proximity in document ranking
We demonstrate effective new methods of document ranking based on lexical cohesive relationships between query terms. The proposed methods rely solely on the lexical relationships...
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
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2008
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Users can change their web search tactics: Design guidelines for categorized overviews
Categorized overviews of web search results are a promising way to support user exploration, understanding, and discovery. These search interfaces combine a metadata-based overvie...
Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman
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2008
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Looking back: On relevance, probabilistic indexing and information retrieval
Forty-eight years ago Maron and Kuhns published their paper, ``On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval" (1960). This was the first paper to present a p...
Paul Thompson
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2008
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An examination of the physical and the digital qualities of humanities research
Jon Rimmer, Claire Warwick, Ann Blandford, Jeremy ...
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2008
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A new robust relevance model in the language model framework
ct 8 In this paper, a new robust relevance model is proposed that can be applied to both pseudo and true relevance feedback 9 in the language-modeling framework for document retrie...
Xiaoyan Li
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2008
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Investigating the information-seeking behaviour of academic lawyers: From Ellis's model to design
by studying lawyers, analyse information-seeking at a high level of abstraction and are only likely to lead to broad-scoped design insights. We illustrate that one potentially usef...
Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford, Anna Louise Cox
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2008
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Towards a unified approach to document similarity search using manifold-ranking of blocks
Document similarity search (i.e. query by example) aims to retrieve a ranked list of documents similar to a query document in a text corpus or on the Web. Most existing approaches...
Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang, Jianguo Xiao
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2008
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Local relational string and mutual matching for image retrieval
Exhibiting new features and likely related matching techniques to efficiently retrieve images from databases remains an open problem. This paper is first devoted to such a novel d...
Adel Hafiane, Bertrand Zavidovique