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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
ICEIS
2009
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Creation and Maintenance of Query Expansion Rules
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Stefania Castellani, Aaron N. Kaplan, Fréd&...
SAC
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic learning of text-to-concept mappings exploiting WordNet-like lexical networks
A great jump towards the advent of the Semantic Web will take place when a critical mass of web resources is available for use in a semantic way. This goal can be reached by the c...
Dario Bonino, Fulvio Corno, Federico Pescarmona
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Web-based acquisition of Japanese katakana variants
This paper describes a method of detecting Japanese Katakana variants from a large corpus. Katakana words, which are mainly used as loanwords, cause problems with information retr...
Takeshi Masuyama, Hiroshi Nakagawa
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...