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IR
2000
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Retrieving with Good Sense
ct Although always present in text, word sense ambiguity only recently became regarded as a problem to information retrieval which was potentially solvable. The growth of interest ...
Mark Sanderson
IPM
2000
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Searching the web by constrained spreading activation
Intelligent Information Retrieval is concerned with the application of intelligent techniques, like for example semantic networks, neural networks and inference nets to Informatio...
Fabio Crestani, Puay Leng Lee
DKE
2002
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Spoken query processing for interactive information retrieval
It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
Fabio Crestani
CORR
2004
Springer
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Mathematical knowledge management is needed
In this lecture I discuss some aspects of MKM, Mathematical Knowledge Management, with particuar emphasis on information storage and information retrieval. MSCS: 68P20, 68T30 Key w...
Michiel Hazewinkel
ASC
2004
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Clustering terms in the Bayesian network retrieval model: a new approach with two term-layers
The retrieval performance of an information retrieval system usually increases when it uses the relationships among the terms contained in a given document collection. However, th...
Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, ...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
IR
2007
13 years 3 months ago
Regularizing query-based retrieval scores
In information retrieval, the cluster hypothesis states: closely related documents tend to be relevant to the same request. We exploit this hypothesis directly by adjusting queryb...
Fernando Diaz
IPM
2007
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Percent perfect performance (PPP)
An information retrieval performance measure that is interpreted as the percent of perfect performance (PPP) can be used to study the effects of the inclusion of specific documen...
Robert M. Losee
IPM
2007
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QCS: A system for querying, clustering and summarizing documents
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
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Saving and accessing the old IR literature
This short paper describes the beginnings of a project to digitize some of the older literature in the information retrieval field. So far 14 of the older reports, such as the Cra...
Donna Harman, Djoerd Hiemstra