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EMNLP
2011
12 years 5 months ago
Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base
We consider the problem of performing learning and inference in a large scale knowledge base containing imperfect knowledge with incomplete coverage. We show that a soft inference...
Ni Lao, Tom M. Mitchell, William W. Cohen
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Extraction and search of chemical formulae in text documents on the web
Often scientists seek to search for articles on the Web related to a particular chemical. When a scientist searches for a chemical formula using a search engine today, she gets ar...
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...