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TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with Prediction of Query Difficulty
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using Concept-Based Indexing to Improve Language Modeling Approach to Genomic IR
Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR communit...
Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
MeSH Based Feedback, Concept Recognition and Stacked Classification for Curation Tasks
This paper reports about experiments carried out in the context of the genomics track at TREC 2004. Experiments were concentrated on two subtasks: the ad hoc retrieval task and th...
Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Marc Weeber, R...
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
ANLP
1994
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13 years 6 months ago
Robust Text Processing in Automated Information Retrieval
We report on the results of a series of experiments with a prototype text retrieval system which uses relatively advanced natural language processing techniques in order to enhanc...
Tomek Strzalkowski