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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
You are what you say: privacy risks of public mentions
In today’s data-rich networked world, people express many aspects of their lives online. It is common to segregate different aspects in different places: you might write opinion...
Dan Frankowski, Dan Cosley, Shilad Sen, Loren G. T...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Using historical data to enhance rank aggregation
Rank aggregation is a pervading operation in IR technology. We hypothesize that the performance of score-based aggregation may be affected by artificial, usually meaningless devia...
Miriam Fernández, David Vallet, Pablo Caste...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
AggregateRank: bringing order to web sites
Since the website is one of the most important organizational structures of the Web, how to effectively rank websites has been essential to many Web applications, such as Web sear...
Guang Feng, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Wang, Ying Bao, Zhim...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Semantic term matching in axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam