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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship
Following the tradition of these acceptance talks, I will be giving my thoughts on where our field is going. Any discussion of the future of information retrieval (IR) research, h...
W. Bruce Croft
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving document clustering by utilizing meta-data
In this paper, we examine how to improve the precision and recall of document clustering by utilizing meta-data. We use meta-data through NewsML tags to assist clustering and show...
Kam-Fai Wong, Nam-Kiu Chan, Kam-Lai Wong
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
AnyQ: answer set based information retrieval system
Hyo-Jung Oh, Myung-Gil Jang, Moon-Soo Chang
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A sentence reduction using syntax control
This paper present a method based on the behavior of nonnative speaker for reduction sentence in foreign language. We demonstrate an algorithm using semantic information in order ...
Minh Le Nguyen, Susumu Horiguchi
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving summarization performance by sentence compression: a pilot study
In this paper we study the effectiveness of applying sentence compression on an extraction based multi-document summarization system. Our results show that pure syntactic-based co...
Chin-Yew Lin
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Extraction of user preferences from a few positive documents
In this work, we propose a new method for extracting user preferences from a few documents that might interest users. For this end, we first extract candidate terms and choose a n...
Byeong Man Kim, Qing Li, Jong-Wan Kim
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A practical text summarizer by paragraph extraction for Thai
In this paper, we propose a practical approach for extracting the most relevant paragraphs from the original document to form a summary for Thai text. The idea of our approach is ...
Chuleerat Jaruskulchai, Canasai Kruengkrai
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Korean named entity recognition using HMM and CoTraining model
Namedentityrecognition isimportantinsophisticatedinformation service system such as Question Answering and Text Mining since most of the answer type and text mining unit depend on...
Euisok Chung, Yi-Gyu Hwang, Myung-Gil Jang
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Question-Answering based on virtually integrated lexical knowledge base
This paper proposes an algorithm for causality inference based on a set of lexical knowledge bases that contain information about such items as event role, is-a hierarchy, relevan...
Key-Sun Choi, Jae-Ho Kim, Masaru Miyazaki, Jun Got...
IRAL
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Temporal ranking for fresh information retrieval
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
Nobuyoshi Sato, Minoru Uehara, Yoshifumi Sakai