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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An effective approach to document retrieval via utilizing WordNet and recognizing phrases
Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...
Shuang Liu, Fang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft, Paul Oh, David Hart
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Context sensitive vocabulary and its application in protein secondary structure prediction
Protein secondary structure prediction is an important step towards understanding the relation between protein sequence and structure. However, most current prediction methods use...
Yan Liu, Jaime G. Carbonell, Judith Klein-Seethara...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Context-based question-answering evaluation
In this poster, we will present the results of efforts we have undertaken to conduct evaluations of a QA system in a real world environment and to understand the nature of the dim...
Elizabeth D. Liddy, Anne Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Document clustering via adaptive subspace iteration
Document clustering has long been an important problem in information retrieval. In this paper, we present a new clustering algorithm ASI1, which uses explicitly modeling of the s...
Tao Li, Sheng Ma, Mitsunori Ogihara
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A music recommender based on audio features
Many collaborative music recommender systems (CMRS) have succeeded in capturing the similarity among users or items based on ratings, however they have rarely considered about the...
Qing Li, Byeong Man Kim, Donghai Guan, Duk whan Oh
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval
Applying Belief Revision logic to model adaptive information retrieval is appealing since it provides a rigorous theoretical foundation to model partiality and uncertainty inheren...
Raymond Y. K. Lau, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Language-specific models in multilingual topic tracking
Topic tracking is complicated when the stories in the stream occur in multiple languages. Typically, researchers have trained only English topic models because the training storie...
Leah S. Larkey, Fangfang Feng, Margaret E. Connell...