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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Study of Global Inference Algorithms in Multi-document Summarization
Abstract. In this work we study the theoretical and empirical properties of various global inference algorithms for multi-document summarization. We start by defining a general fr...
Ryan T. McDonald
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Retrieval Evaluation Methodology for Incomplete Relevance Assessments
In this paper we a propose an extended methodology for laboratory based Information Retrieval evaluation under incomplete relevance assessments. This new protocol aims to identify ...
Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Ian Ruthven
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval
Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
Jie Peng, Iadh Ounis
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Personalized Communities in a Distributed Recommender System
The amount of data exponentially increases in information systems and it becomes more and more difficult to extract the most relevant information within a very short time. Among ot...
Sylvain Castagnos, Anne Boyer
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Hierarchical Consensus Architecture for Robust Document Clustering
Abstract. A major problem encountered by text clustering practitioners is the difficulty of determining a priori which is the optimal text representation and clustering technique f...
Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Al&...
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Static Pruning of Terms in Inverted Files
This paper addresses the problem of identifying collection dependent stop-words in order to reduce the size of inverted files. We present four methods to automatically recognise s...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Morphological Query Expansion Using Analogy-Based Machine Learning
Information retrieval systems (IRSs) usually suffer from a low ability to recognize a same idea that is expressed in different forms. A way of improving these systems is to take ...
Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sé...
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas