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2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Implicit link analysis for small web search
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...
Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying M...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maart...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship
Following the tradition of these acceptance talks, I will be giving my thoughts on where our field is going. Any discussion of the future of information retrieval (IR) research, h...
W. Bruce Croft