CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
The term frequency normalisation parameter sensitivity is an important issue in the probabilistic model for Information Retrieval. A high parameter sensitivity indicates that a sl...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems suffer from the overspecification of query results due to the fact that queries are conjunctive and the descriptions of shared files are sparse. ...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Hybrid P2P systems rely on the assumption that sufficient objects exist nearby in order to make the unstructured search component efficient. This availability depends on the o...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
We introduce perturbation kernels, a new class of similarity measure for information retrieval that casts word similarity in terms of multi-task learning. Perturbation kernels mode...
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
A route leads from a start location to a final destination and passes through geospatial entities that are picked according to search terms provided by the user. Each entity is pe...