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AAAI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text
In this paper we improve previous work on measuring the similarity of short segments of text in two ways. First, we introduce a Web-relevance similarity measure and demonstrate it...
Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text
Measuring the similarity between documents and queries has been extensively studied in information retrieval. However, there are a growing number of tasks that require computing th...
Donald Metzler, Susan T. Dumais, Christopher Meek
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A web-based kernel function for measuring the similarity of short text snippets
Determining the similarity of short text snippets, such as search queries, works poorly with traditional document similarity measures (e.g., cosine), since there are often few, if...
Mehran Sahami, Timothy D. Heilman
DEXAW
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 days ago
Proximity Estimation and Hardness of Short-Text Corpora
Abstract—In this work, we investigate the relative hardness of shorttext corpora in clustering problems and how this hardness relates to traditional similarity measures. Our appr...
Marcelo Luis Errecalde, Diego Ingaramo, Paolo Ross...
AAAI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Topic Segmentation Algorithms for Text Summarization and Passage Retrieval: An Exhaustive Evaluation
In order to solve problems of reliability of systems based on lexical repetition and problems of adaptability of languagedependent systems, we present a context-based topic segmen...
Gaël Dias, Elsa Alves, José Gabriel Pe...