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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Transliteration of proper names in cross-language applications
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...
Paola Virga, Sanjeev Khudanpur
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic term variant generator for biomedical terms
This paper presents an algorithm to generate possible variants for biomedical terms. The algorithm gives each variant its generation probability representing its plausibility, whi...
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun-ichi Tsujii
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Document-self expansion for text categorization
Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Da-Wei Juang
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval revisited
Christopher Stokoe, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Apoidea: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Crawling the World Wide Web
This paper describes a decentralized peer-to-peer model for building a Web crawler. Most of the current systems use a centralized client-server model, in which the crawl is done by...
Aameek Singh, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Ling Liu, Todd Mi...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms
Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an i...
Luo Si, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval
In this poster,we incorporate user query history, as context information, to improve the retrieval performance in interactive retrieval. Experiments using the TREC data show that ...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai