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SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Exploring the Similarity Space
Ranked queries are used to locate relevant documents in text databases. In a ranked query a list of terms is specified, then the documents that most closely match the query are re...
Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Boosting and Rocchio Applied to Text Filtering
We discuss two learning algorithms for text filtering: modified Rocchio and a boosting algorithm called AdaBoost. We show how both algorithms can be adapted to maximize any gene...
Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer, Amit Singhal
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-Language Information Retrieval with the UMLS Metathesaurus
We investigate an automatic method for Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) that utilizes the multilingual UMLS Metathesaurus to translate Spanish and French natural languag...
David Eichmann, Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
DOLORES: A System for Logic-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Objects
We describe the design and implementation of a system for logic-based multimedia retrieval. As highlevel logic for retrieval of hypermedia documents, we have developed a probabilis...
Norbert Fuhr, Norbert Gövert, Thomas Röl...