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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Experiments with English-Persian text retrieval
As the number of non-English documents is increasing dramatically on the web nowadays, the study and design of information retrieval systems for these languages is very important....
Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Masoud Rahgozar, Fa...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Corrupted queries in Spanish text retrieval: error correction vs. N-Grams
Juan Otero, Jesús Vilares, Manuel Vilares F...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Cross-lingual query classification: a preliminary study
The non-English Web is growing at breakneck speed, but available language processing tools are mostly English based. Taxonomies are a case in point: while there are plenty of comm...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A study of using an out-of-box commercial MT system for query translation in CLIR
Recent availability of commercial online machine translation (MT) systems makes it possible for layman Web users to utilize the MT capability for cross-language information retrie...
Dan Wu, Daqing He, Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Mining conceptual graphs for knowledge acquisition
This work addresses the use of computational linguistic analysis techniques for conceptual graphs learning from unstructured texts. A technique including both content mining and i...
Milagros Fernández, Eric Villemonte de la C...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Indexing and retrieval of a Greek corpus
Greek is one of the most difficult languages to handle in Web Information Retrieval (IR) related tasks. Its difficulty stems from the fact that it is grammatically, morphologicall...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Fotis Laza...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Tag-based filtering for personalized bookmark recommendations
This paper investigates using social tags for the purpose of making personalized content recommendations. Our tag-based recommender creates a personalized bookmark recommendation ...
Pavan Kumar Vatturi, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, Mi...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Large-scale, parallel automatic patent annotation
When researching new product ideas or filing new patents, inventors need to retrieve all relevant pre-existing know-how and/or to exploit and enforce patents in their technologica...
Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Social capital in online communities
Online communities are connecting hordes of individuals and generating rich social network data. The social capital that resides within these networks is largely unknown. We propo...
Matthew S. Smith