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SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
Abstract Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models has been the goal of several researchers b...
Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Modeling and Combining Evidence Provided by Document Relationships Using Probabilistic Argumentation Systems
Previous research has shown that hypertext links may be a useful source of evidence for document contents and relevance, but these evidence are rather difficult to represent and co...
Justin Picard
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Fast Searching on Compressed Text Allowing Errors
Abstract We present a fast compression and decompression scheme for natural language texts that allows e cient and exible string matching by searching the compressed text directly....
Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Zivi...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Spatial Querying for Image Retrieval: A User-Oriented Evaluation
Joemon M. Jose, Jonathan Furner, David J. Harper
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
DOLORES: A System for Logic-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Objects
We describe the design and implementation of a system for logic-based multimedia retrieval. As highlevel logic for retrieval of hypermedia documents, we have developed a probabilis...
Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Thomas Röl...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed and Experiment
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Charles L. Vil...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Cross-Language Information Retrieval with the UMLS Metathesaurus
We investigate an automatic method for Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) that utilizes the multilingual UMLS Metathesaurus to translate Spanish and French natural languag...
David Eichmann, Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan