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AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Improving Twitter Retrieval by Exploiting Structural Information
Most Twitter search systems generally treat a tweet as a plain text when modeling relevance. However, a series of conventions allows users to tweet in structural ways using combin...
Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic, Ting W...
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
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 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
WSDM
2010
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
TwitterRank: Finding Topic-sensitive Influential Twitterers
This paper focuses on the problem of identifying influential users of micro-blogging services. Twitter, one of the most notable micro-blogging services, employs a social-networkin...
Jianshu Weng, Ee-peng Lim, Jing Jiang, Qi He
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Short text classification in twitter to improve information filtering
In microblogging services such as Twitter, the users may become overwhelmed by the raw data. One solution to this problem is the classification of short text messages. As short te...
Bharath Sriram, Dave Fuhry, Engin Demir, Hakan Fer...