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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity in ranking for biomedical information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity for information retrieval in biomedicine and a re-ranking model to improve retrieval performance in t...
Xiangji Huang, Qinmin Hu
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search?
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Ian Soboroff
61
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
On the local optimality of LambdaRank
Pinar Donmez, Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C...
69
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Usefulness of click-through data in expert search
Craig Macdonald, Ryen W. White
80
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A comparison of retrieval-based hierarchical clustering approaches to person name disambiguation
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
Christof Monz, Wouter Weerkamp
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
An aspectual interface for supporting complex search tasks
With the increasing importance of search systems on the web, there is a continuing push to design interfaces which are a better match with the kinds of real-world tasks in which u...
Robert Villa, Iván Cantador, Hideo Joho, Jo...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
On single-pass indexing with MapReduce
Richard M. C. McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Oun...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Using anchor texts with their hyperlink structure for web search
As a good complement to page content, anchor texts have been extensively used, and proven to be useful, in commercial search engines. However, anchor texts have been assumed to be...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Jian-Yun Nie, Ji-Rong W...
93
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Multiple approaches to analysing query diversity
In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...
76
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Fitting score distribution for blog opinion retrieval
Ben He, Jie Peng, Iadh Ounis