SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't g...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Information filtering has made considerable progress in recent years.The predominant approaches are content-based methods and collaborative methods. Researchers have largely conc...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for facilitating many important applications such as mobile search, personalized search, PC troubleshooting, etc. Despite of its impor...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
An evaluation methodology that targets ineffective topics is needed to support research on obtaining more consistent retrieval across topics. Using average values of traditional ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Pseudo feedback is a commonly used technique to improve information retrieval performance. It assumes a few top-ranked documents to be relevant, and learns from them to improve th...