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SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
OCELOT: a system for summarizing Web pages
Abstract We introduce OCELOT, a prototype system for automatically generating the “gist” of a web page by summarizing it. Although most text summarization research to date has ...
Adam L. Berger, Vibhu O. Mittal
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...