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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...
CORIA
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Clustering en recherche d'information : concentration vs distribution de l'information pertinente
Relying on the Cluster Hypothesis, which states that relevant documents tend to be more similar one to each other than to non-relevant ones, most of information retrieval systems p...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
NAACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Learning from Relevant Documents in Large Scale Routing Retrieval
The normal practice of selecting relevant documents for training routing queries is to either use all relevants or the 'best n' of them after a (retrieval) ranking opera...
K. L. Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Query Expansion Seen Through Return Order of Relevant Documents
There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better understanding of query ex...
Walter Liggett, Chris Buckley
RIAO
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Discovering Internet Resources to enrich a structured Personal information space
The Internet is a tremendous resource where one can find documents to enrich a personal information space. The question is: how can one find relevant documents and how can these b...
Michele Ouellet, Jan Gecsei, Jian-Yun Nie
RIAO
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Information Retrieval Systems aim at retrieving relevant documents according to the information needs which users express. Most Information Retrieval Systems focus on passage retr...
Taoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Comparison of two interactive search refinement techniques
The paper presents two approaches to interactively refining user search formulations and their evaluation in the new High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track of TREC-12...
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
GVD
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Conflation Methods and Spelling Mistakes - A Sensitivity Analysis in Information Retrieval
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
Philipp Dopichaj, Theo Härder
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combining CORI and the Decision-Theoretic Approach for Advanced Resource Selection
In this paper we combine two existing resource selection approaches, CORI and the decision-theoretic framework (DTF). The state-of-the-art system CORI belongs to the large group of...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
ADCS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
NLPX - An XML-IR System with a Natural Language Interface
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
Alan Woodley, Shlomo Geva