ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
This paper describes an empirical study of the "Information Synthesis" task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and inte...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents a method of retrieving bilingual collocations of a verb and its objective noun from cross-lingual documents with similar contents. Relevant documents are obtai...
ELPUB
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we present our online summarization system of web topics. The user defines the topic by a set of keywords. Then the system searches the Web for the relevant documen...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1998
ACM
Two stages in measurement of techniques for information retrieval are gathering of documents for relevance assessment and use of the assessments to numerically evaluate effective...
ITCC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
SAC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...
AIRS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Query expansion techniques generally select new query terms from a set of top ranked documents. Although a user’s manual judgment of those documents would much help to select goo...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...