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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation
Topic tracking and information filtering are models of interactive tasks, but their evaluations are generally done in a way that does not reflect likely usage. The models either f...
Anton Leuski, James Allan
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Cross-lingual relevance models
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Study of category score algorithms for k-NN classifier
: This paper analyzes category score algorithms for k-NN classifier found in the literature, including majority voting algorithm (MVA), simple sum algorithm (SSA), etc. MVA and SS...
Huaizhong Kou, Georges Gardarin
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A logistic regression approach to distributed IR
This poster session examines a probabilistic approach to distributed information retrieval using a Logistic Regression algorithm for estimation of collection relevance. The algori...
Ray R. Larson
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Improving stemming for Arabic information retrieval: light stemming and co-occurrence analysis
Arabic, a highly inflected language, requires good stemming for effective information retrieval, yet no standard approach to stemming has emerged. We developed several light stemm...
Leah S. Larkey, Lisa Ballesteros, Margaret E. Conn...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Language model for IR using collection information
In this paper, we explored how to use meta-data information in information retrieval task. We presented a new language model that is able to take advantage of the category informa...
Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alexander G. Hauptmann, James P....
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Title language model for information retrieval
Rong Jin, Alexander G. Hauptmann, ChengXiang Zhai