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ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval
Due to many unique characteristics of forum data, forum post retrieval is different from traditional document retrieval and web search, raising interesting research questions abou...
Huizhong Duan, Chengxiang Zhai
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Back to the Roots: Mean-Variance Analysis of Relevance Estimations
Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Combining Global and Local Semantic Contexts for Improving Biomedical Information Retrieval
In the context of biomedical information retrieval (IR), this paper explores the relationship between the document’s global context and the query’s local context in an attempt ...
Duy Dinh, Lynda Tamine
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
SkipBlock: Self-indexing for Block-Based Inverted List
In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...
Stéphane Campinas, Renaud Delbru, Giovanni ...
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