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PVLDB
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
HweeHwa Pang, Xuhua Ding, Xiaokui Xiao
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
SEDA: a system for search, exploration, discovery, and analysis of XML Data
Keyword search in XML repositories is a powerful tool for interactive data exploration. Much work has recently been done on making XML search aware of relationship information emb...
Andrey Balmin, Latha S. Colby, Emiran Curtmola, Qu...
IPM
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Facet-based opinion retrieval from blogs
The paper presents methods of retrieving blog posts containing opinions about an entity expressed in the query. The methods use a lexicon of subjective words and phrases compiled ...
Olga Vechtomova
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 11 months 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
IPM
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Investigating sentence weighting components for automatic summarisation
The work described here initially formed part of a triangulation exercise to establish the effectiveness of the Query Term Order algorithm. The methodology produced subsequently p...
Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin, John Tait
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting sequential dependencies for expert finding
We propose an expert finding method based on assumption of sequential dependence between a candidate expert and the query terms in the scope of a document. We assume that the stre...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
IPM
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
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
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14 years 16 days ago
Ranking Entities Using Web Search Query Logs
Abstract Searching for entities is an emerging task in Information Retrieval for which the goal is finding well defined entities instead of documents matching the query terms. In t...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
DEXAW
2010
IEEE
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14 years 16 days ago
Extracting User Interests from Search Query Logs: A Clustering Approach
-- This paper proposes to enhance search query log analysis by taking into account the semantic properties of query terms. We first describe a method for extracting a global semant...
Lyes Limam, David Coquil, Harald Kosch, Lionel Bru...
IIS
2003
14 years 24 days ago
Web Search Results Clustering in Polish: Experimental Evaluation of Carrot
Abstract. In this paper we consider the problem of web search results clustering in the Polish language, supporting our analysis with results acquired from an experimental system n...
Dawid Weiss, Jerzy Stefanowski