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RIAO
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information
The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Fidel Cacheda
WEBDB
2001
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
On Semi-Automated Web Taxonomy Construction
The subject of this paper is the semi-automatic construction of taxonomies over the Web. We address the problem of discovering high-quality resources that belong in a particular n...
Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopala...
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Relevance Propagation for Topic Distillation UIUC TREC 2003 Web Track Experiments
In this paper, we report our experiments on the Web Track TREC-2003. We submitted five runs for the topic distillation task. Our goal was to evaluate the standard language modeli...
Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai
AIRS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Subsite Retrieval: A Novel Concept for Topic Distillation
Topic distillation is one of the main information needs when users search the Web. In previous approaches to topic distillation, the single page was treated as the basic searching ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Feng, W...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...