Sciweavers

IPM
2008
88views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Remembering William Goffman: Mathematical information science pioneer
This paper reviews the career and legacy of William (Bill) Goffman, who served as a researcher, Professor, Dean and Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, f...
Glynn Harmon
IPM
2008
102views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Fast exact maximum likelihood estimation for mixture of language model
Language modeling is an effective and theoretically attractive probabilistic framework for text information retrieval. The basic idea of this approach is to estimate a language mo...
Yi Zhang 0001, Wei Xu
IPM
2008
123views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Effectiveness of additional representations for the search result presentation on the web
The presentation of search results on the web has been dominated by the textual form of document representation. On the other hand, the document's visual aspects such as the ...
Hideo Joho, Joemon M. Jose
IPM
2008
75views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Single-document and multi-document summarization techniques for email threads using sentence compression
We present two approaches to email thread summarization: Collective Message Summarization (CMS) applies a multi-document summarization approach, while Individual Message Summariza...
David M. Zajic, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy J. Lin
IPM
2008
100views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Query-level loss functions for information retrieval
Many machine learning technologies such as support vector machines, boosting, and neural networks have been applied to the ranking problem in information retrieval. However, since...
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng W...
IPM
2008
114views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Evaluating epistemic uncertainty under incomplete assessments
The thesis of this study is to propose an extended methodology for laboratory based Information Retrieval evaluation under incomplete relevance assessments. This new methodology a...
Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Ian Ruthven
IPM
2008
70views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
An h-index weighted by citation impact
An h-type index is proposed which depends on the obtained citations of articles belonging to the h-core. This weighted h-index, denoted as hw, is presented in a continuous setting...
Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau
IPM
2008
142views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Tagging and searching: Search retrieval effectiveness of folksonomies on the World Wide Web
Many Web sites have begun allowing users to submit items to a collection and tag them with keywords. The folksonomies built from these tags are an interesting topic that has seen ...
P. Jason Morrison
IPM
2008
133views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
DistanceRank: An intelligent ranking algorithm for web pages
A fast and efficient page ranking mechanism for web crawling and retrieval remains as a challenging issue. Recently, several link based ranking algorithms like PageRank, HITS and ...
Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki, Nasser Yazdani
IPM
2008
155views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink