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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Spoken document retrieval from call-center conversations
We are interested in retrieving information from conversational speech corpora, such as call-center data. This data comprises spontaneous speech conversations with low recording q...
Jonathan Mamou, David Carmel, Ron Hoory
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Music structure based vector space retrieval
This paper proposes a novel framework for music content indexing and retrieval. The music structure information, i.e., timing, harmony and music region content, is represented by ...
Namunu Chinthaka Maddage, Haizhou Li, Mohan S. Kan...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Combining fields in known-item email search
Emails are examples of structured documents with various fields. These fields can be exploited to enhance the retrieval effectiveness of an Information Retrieval (IR) system th...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On-line spam filter fusion
We show that a set of independently developed spam filters may be combined in simple ways to provide substantially better filtering than any of the individual filters. The resu...
Thomas R. Lynam, Gordon V. Cormack, David R. Cheri...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
One-sided measures for evaluating ranked retrieval effectiveness with spontaneous conversational speech
Early speech retrieval experiments focused on news broadcasts, for which adequate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy could be obtained. Like newspapers, news broadcasts a...
Baolong Liu, Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
High accuracy retrieval with multiple nested ranker
Irina Matveeva, Chris Burges, Timo Burkard, Andy L...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Representing clusters for retrieval
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: a study in the domain of clinical medicine
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing topic tracking with temporal information
In this paper, we propose a new strategy with time granularity reasoning for utilizing temporal information in topic tracking. Compared with previous ones, our work has four disti...
Baoli Li, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Getting work done on the web: supporting transactional queries
Many searches on the web have a transactional intent. We argue that pages satisfying transactional needs can be distinguished from the more common pages that have some information...
Yunyao Li, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shivakumar Vai...