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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Lower-bounding term frequency normalization
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine?
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Li Wang
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Compound TCP Approach for High-Speed and Long Distance Networks
—Many applications require fast data transfer over high speed and long distance networks. However, standard TCP fails to fully utilize the network capacity due to the limitation ...
Kun Tan, Jingmin Song, Qian Zhang, Murari Sridhara...
DGO
2003
118views Education» more  DGO 2003»
13 years 6 months ago
Reducing Storage Costs for Federated Search of Text Databases
In environments containing many text search engines a federated search system provides people with a single point of access. When search engines are managed by independent organiz...
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan