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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
How medical expertise influences web search interaction
Domain expertise can have an important influence on how people search. In this poster we present findings from a log-based study into how medical domain experts search the Web for...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Optimizing relevance and revenue in ad search: a query substitution approach
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
Filip Radlinski, Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
Ming-Feng Tsai, Yu-Ting Wang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
A lattice-based approach to query-by-example spoken document retrieval
Recent efforts on the task of spoken document retrieval (SDR) have made use of speech lattices: speech lattices contain information about alternative speech transcription hypothes...
Tee Kiah Chia, Khe Chai Sim, Haizhou Li, Hwee Tou ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Emulating query-biased summaries using document titles
Generating query-biased summaries can take up a large part of the response time of interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems. This paper proposes to use document titles as a...
Hideo Joho, David Hannah, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Precision-at-ten considered redundant
Information retrieval systems are compared using evaluation metrics, with researchers commonly reporting results for simple metrics such as precision-at-10 or reciprocal rank toge...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tet...