CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
One aspect in which retrieving named entities is different from retrieving documents is that the items to be retrieved – persons, locations, organizations – are only indirect...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
We consider a distributed information system that allows autonomous consumers to query autonomous providers. We focus on the problem of query allocation from a new point of view, ...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
We investigate the problem of how to evaluate, fast and efficiently, classes of optimal route queries on a massive graph in a unified framework. To evaluate a route query effectiv...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Every user has a distinct background and a specific goal when searching for information on the Web. The goal of Web search personalization is to tailor search results to a particu...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Information retrieval experimentation generally proceeds in a cycle of development, evaluation, and hypothesis testing. Ideally, the evaluation and testing phases should be short ...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Hidden markov model (HMM) is frequently used for Pinyin-toChinese conversion. But it only captures the dependency with the preceding character. Higher order markov models can brin...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper, we describe the ChemXSeer system that hosts data and scholarly articles related to chemical kinetics. Domain scientists have different needs that are not served by ...