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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
ACM SIGIR 2001 workshop "Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications"
We organized a workshop at SIGIR'01 to explore the area of information retrieval techniques for speech applications. Here we summarize the results of that workshop
Anni Coden, Eric W. Brown, Savitha Srinivasan
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering
This paper addresses the problem of extending an adaptive information filtering system to make decisions about the novelty and redundancy of relevant documents. It argues that rel...
Yi Zhang 0001, James P. Callan, Thomas P. Minka
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Generic summarization and keyphrase extraction using mutual reinforcement principle and sentence clustering
A novel method for simultaneous keyphrase extraction and generic text summarization is proposed by modeling text documents as weighted undirected and weighted bipartite graphs. Sp...
Hongyuan Zha
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Automatic classification in product catalogs
In this paper, we present the AutoCat system for product classification. AutoCat uses a vector space model, modified to consider product attributes unavailable in traditional docu...
Ben Wolin
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose