SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Although text categorization is a burgeoning area of IR research, readily available test collections in this field are surprisingly scarce. We describe a methodology and system (...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
As online document collections continue to expand, both on the Web and in proprietary environments, the need for duplicate detection becomes more critical. The goal of this work i...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper investigates the level of metadata accuracy required for image filters to be valuable to users. Access to large digital image and video collections is hampered by ambig...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Optimizing and focusing search and results ranking in P2P networks becomes more and more important with the increasing size of these networks. Even though a few approaches have al...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We describe a method to define and use subwebs, user-defined neighborhoods of the Internet. Subwebs help improve search performance by inducing a topic-specific page relevance ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
We present a probabilistic model for a document corpus that combines many of the desirable features of previous models. The model is called “GaP” for Gamma-Poisson, the distri...