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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Learning patterns to answer open domain questions on the web
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Resource selection for domain-specific cross-lingual IR
An under-explored question in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is to what degree the performance of CLIR methods depends on the availability of high-quality translation...
Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A search engine for historical manuscript images
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, Victor Lavrenko
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A logic-based approach for computing service executions plans in peer-to-peer networks
Abstract. Today, peer-to-peer services can comprise a large and growing number of services, e.g. search services or services dealing with heterogeneous schemas in the context of Di...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Formal multiple-bernoulli models for language modeling
Donald Metzler, Victor Lavrenko, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A search engine for imaged documents in PDF files
Large quantities of documents in the Internet and digital libraries are simply scanned and archived in image format, many of which are packed in PDF files. The word search tool pr...
Yue Lu, Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Federated Search of Text-Based Digital Libraries in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks
Abstract. Peer-to-peer architectures are a potentially powerful model for developing large-scale networks of text-based digital libraries, but peer-to-peer networks have so far pro...
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...
Shaorong Liu, Qinghua Zou, Wesley W. Chu