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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Combining document representations for known-item search
This paper investigates the pre-conditions for successful combination of document representations formed from structural markup for the task of known-item search. As this task is ...
Paul Ogilvie, James P. Callan
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Single n-gram stemming
Stemming can improve retrieval accuracy, but stemmers are language-specific. Character n-gram tokenization achieves many of the benefits of stemming in a language independent way,...
James Mayfield, Paul McNamee
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A personalised information retrieval tool
Due to both the size and growth of the internet, new tools are needed to assist with the finding and extraction of very specific resources relevant to a user's task. Previous...
Innes Martin, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Assessing the effectiveness of pen-based input queries
In this poster, we describe an experiment exploring the effectiveness of a pen based text input device for use in query construction. Standard TREC queries were written, recognise...
Stephen Levin, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches
Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and...
Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Music modeling with random fields
Victor Lavrenko, Jeremy Pickens
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An architecture for peer-to-peer information retrieval
Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
XML retrieval: what to retrieve?
The fundamental difference between standard information retrieval and XML retrieval is the unit of retrieval. In traditional IR, the unit of retrieval is fixed: it is the comple...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...