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ADCS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
On the Effectiveness of Relevance Profiling
Relevance profiling is a general process for withindocument retrieval. Given a query, a profile of retrieval status values is computed by sliding a fixed sized window across a doc...
David J. Harper, David Lee
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF?
When investigating alternative estimates for term discriminativeness, we discovered that relevance information and idf are much closer related than formulated in classical literat...
Arjen P. de Vries, Thomas Rölleke
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A community-aware search engine
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
Rodrigo B. Almeida, Virgílio A. F. Almeida
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Query expansion using random walk models
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan
CORR
2010
Springer
133views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Adapting to the Shifting Intent of Search Queries
Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
Umar Syed, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Nina Mishra