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ISDA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Combined Query Expansion Technique for Retrieving Opinions from Blogs
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Stefan Kazalski, Dietrich Klakow
ICEIS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Creation and Maintenance of Query Expansion Rules
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Stefania Castellani, Aaron N. Kaplan, Fréd&...
WSDM
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Wikipedia pages as entry points for book search
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek