SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We report on two experiments performed to test the importance of Term Order in automatic summarisation. Experiment one was undertaken as part of DUC 2004 to which three systems we...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Retrospective news event detection (RED) is defined as the discovery of previously unidentified events in historical news corpus. Although both the contents and time information...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper is concerned with automatic extraction of titles from the bodies of HTML documents. Titles of HTML documents should be correctly defined in the title fields; however, i...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Recognition and retrieval of historical handwritten material is an unsolved problem. We propose a novel approach to recognizing and retrieving handwritten manuscripts, based upon ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper examines the reliability of implicit feedback generated from clickthrough data in WWW search. Analyzing the users’ decision process using eyetracking and comparing im...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...