SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Given the experimental nature of information retrieval, progress critically depends on analyzing the errors made by existing retrieval approaches and understanding their limitatio...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Collaborative filtering aims at learning predictive models of user preferences, interests or behavior from community data, i.e. a database of available user preferences. In this ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Libraries have traditionally used manual image annotation for indexing and then later retrieving their image collections. However, manual image annotation is an expensive and labo...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
As a result of the anonymity in todays Web search, it is not possible to receive a personalized search result. Neither prior search results nor search results from other users are ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a fully generative approach to language modelling which overcomes the inconsistent generative semantics of Probabilistic Latent Semantic Index...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Niche Search Engines offer an efficient alternative to traditional search engines when the results returned by general-purpose search engines do not provide a sufficient degree of...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
A novel maximal figure-of-merit (MFoM) learning approach to text categorization is proposed. Different from the conventional techniques, the proposed MFoM method attempts to integ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
This paper presents a novel domain-independent text segmentation method, which identifies the boundaries of topic changes in long text documents and/or text streams. The method c...