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ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Personalizing Web Search with Folksonomy-Based User and Document Profiles
Web search personalization aims to adapt search results to a user based on his tastes, interests and needs. The way in which such personal preferences are captured, modeled and exp...
David Vallet, Iván Cantador, Joemon M. Jose
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
News Comments: Exploring, Modeling, and Online Prediction
Online news agents provide commenting facilities for their readers to express their opinions or sentiments with regards to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a n...
Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Server Selection for Federated Search
Abstract. Previous evaluations of server selection methods for federated search have either used metrics which are unconnected with user satisfaction, or have not been able to acco...
Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluation and User Preference Study on Spatial Diversity
Spatial diversity is a relatively new branch of research in the context of spatial information retrieval. Although the assumption that spatially diversified results may meet users&...
Jiayu Tang, Mark Sanderson
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Retrieving Customary Web Language to Assist Writers
This paper introduces NETSPEAK, a Web service which assists writers in finding adequate expressions. To provide statistically relevant suggestions, the
Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Martin Trenkmann
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating Translation Probabilities from the Web for Structured Queries on CLIR
We present two methods for estimating replacement probabilities without using parallel corpora. The first method proposed exploits the possible translation probabilities latent in ...
Xabier Saralegi, Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Explicit Search Result Diversification through Sub-queries
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms
Despite its potential to improve search effectiveness, previous research has shown that the uptake of interactive query expansion (IQE) is limited. In this paper, we investigate on...
Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthve...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents
Abstract. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the topranking n documents of the initial retrieval are relevant and extracts expansion terms from them. In this work, we int...
Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Pushpak Bhattach...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Opinion Summarization of Web Comments
Martin Potthast, Steffen Becker