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SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Detecting dominant locations from search queries
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Self-organizing distributed collaborative filtering
We propose a fully decentralized collaborative filtering approach that is self-organizing and operates in a distributed way. The relevances between downloading files (items) are...
Jun Wang, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Reginald L. Lagen...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Indexing emails and email threads for retrieval
Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...
Yejun Wu, Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF?
When investigating alternative estimates for term discriminativeness, we discovered that relevance information and idf are much closer related than formulated in classical literat...
Arjen P. de Vries, Thomas Rölleke
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
We formulate and study search algorithms that consider a user’s prior interactions with a wide variety of content to personalize that user’s current Web search. Rather than re...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Noun sense induction using web search results
This paper presents an algorithm for unsupervised noun sense induction, based on clustering of Web search results. The algorithm does not utilize labeled training instances or any...
Goldee Udani, Shachi Dave, Anthony Davis, Tim Sibl...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Publish/subscribe functionality in IR environments using structured overlay networks
We study the problem of offering publish/subscribe functionality on top of structured overlay networks using data models and languages from IR. We show how to achieve this by ext...
Christos Tryfonopoulos, Stratos Idreos, Manolis Ko...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Web-page summarization using clickthrough data
Jian-Tao Sun, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Qiang Yang, ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Optimization strategies for complex queries
Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft