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WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Clustering user queries of a search engine
In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
Ji-Rong Wen, Jian-Yun Nie, HongJiang Zhang
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
On metonymy recognition for geographic IR
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Domain-Specific IR for German, English and Russian Languages
In participating in this CLEF evaluation campaign, our first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Russian language, in order to obta...
Claire Fautsch, Ljiljana Dolamic, Samir Abdou, Jac...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Catherine L. Smith, Paul B. Kantor