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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Investigation of partial query proximity in web search
Proximity of query terms in a document is an important criterion in IR. However, no investigation has been made to determine the most useful term sequences for which proximity sho...
Jing Bai, Yi Chang, Hang Cui, Zhaohui Zheng, Gordo...
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
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 14 hour ago
Investigating the Semantic Gap through Query Log Analysis
Significant efforts have focused in the past years on bringing large amounts of metadata online and the success of these efforts can be seen by the impressive number of web site...
Peter Mika, Edgar Meij, Hugo Zaragoza
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Geospatial mapping and navigation of the web
Web pages may be organized, indexed, searched, and navigated along several different feature dimensions. We investigate different approaches to discovering geographic context for ...
Kevin S. McCurley