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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Predicting escalations of medical queries based on web page structure and content
Logs of users' searches on Web health topics can exhibit signs of escalation of medical concerns, where initial queries about common symptoms are followed by queries about se...
Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Estimating interference in the QPRP for subtopic retrieval
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Claudia Hauff, Keith...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Retrieval system evaluation: automatic evaluation versus incomplete judgments
In information retrieval (IR), research aiming to reduce the cost of retrieval system evaluations has been conducted along two lines: (i) the evaluation of IR systems with reduced...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Collecting high quality overlapping labels at low cost
Hui Yang, Anton Mityagin, Krysta Marie Svore, Serg...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Visual summarization of web pages
Visual summarization is an attractive new scheme to summarize web pages, which can help achieve a more friendly user experience in search and re-finding tasks by allowing users qu...
Binxing Jiao, Linjun Yang, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Entity summarization of news articles
In this paper we study the problem of entity retrieval for news applications and the importance of the news trail history (i.e. past related articles) to determine the relevant en...
Gianluca Demartini, Malik Muhammad Saad Missen, Ro...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Optimal meta search results clustering
By analogy with merging documents rankings, the outputs from multiple search results clustering algorithms can be combined into a single output. In this paper we study the feasibi...
Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Scalability of findability: effective and efficient IR operations in large information networks
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
Weimao Ke, Javed Mostafa
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Ontology-enriched multi-document summarization in disaster management
In this poster, we propose a novel document summarization approach named Ontology-enriched M ulti-Document Summarization(OMS) for utilizing background knowledge to improve summari...
Lei Li, Dingding Wang, Chao Shen, Tao Li
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
A joint probabilistic classification model for resource selection
Resource selection is an important task in Federated Search to select a small number of most relevant information sources. Current resource selection algorithms such as GlOSS, COR...
Dzung Hong, Luo Si, Paul Bracke, Michael Witt, Tim...