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TREC
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Indexing Structures Derived from Syntax in TREC-3: System Description
: This paper describes an approach to information retrieval based on a syntactic analysis of the document texts and user queries, and from that analysis, the construction of tree s...
Alan F. Smeaton, Ruairi O'Donnell, Fergus Kelledy
TREC
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Document Translation for Cross-Language Text Retrieval at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...
Douglas W. Oard, Paul G. Hackett
TREC
1998
13 years 6 months ago
BBN at TREC7: Using Hidden Markov Models for Information Retrieval
We present a new method for information retrieval using hidden Markov models HMMs and relate our experience with this system on the TREC-7 ad hoc task. We develop a general framew...
David R. H. Miller, Tim Leek, Richard M. Schwartz
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
TREC 2004 Genomics Track Experiments at IUB
This paper describes the methods we developed for the three tasks of the TREC Genomics Track, i.e., ad hoc retrieval, triage, and annotation tasks. For the ad hoc retrieval task, ...
Kazuhiro Seki, James C. Costello, Vasanth R. Singa...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The importance of anchor text for ad hoc search revisited
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A Hidden Markov Model Information Retrieval System
We present a new method for information retrievalusing hidden Markov models (HMMs). We develop a general framework for incorporating multiple word generation mechanisms within the...
David R. H. Miller, Tim Leek, Richard M. Schwartz
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Web-centric language models
We investigates language models for informational and navigational web search. Retrieval on the web is a task that differs substantially from ordinary ad hoc retrieval. We perfor...
Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Using wikipedia categories for ad hoc search
In this paper we explore the use of category information for ad hoc retrieval in Wikipedia. We show that techniques for entity ranking exploiting this category information can als...
Rianne Kaptein, Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Brute force and indexed approaches to pairwise document similarity comparisons with MapReduce
This paper explores the problem of computing pairwise similarity on document collections, focusing on the application of “more like this” queries in the life sciences domain. ...
Jimmy J. Lin