SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Named entity recognition is important for semantically oriented retrieval tasks, such as question answering, entity retrieval, biomedical retrieval, trend detection, and event and...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
We present HAMLET, a suite of principles, scoring models and algorithms to automatically propagate metadata along edges in a document neighborhood. As a showcase scenario we consi...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Efficient similarity search in high-dimensional spaces is important to content-based retrieval systems. Recent studies have shown that sketches can effectively approximate L1 dist...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we look at the "social tag prediction" problem. Given a set of objects, and a set of tags applied to those objects by users, can we predict whether a give...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Passages can be hidden within a text to circumvent their disallowed transfer. Such release of compartmentalized information is of concern to all corporate and governmental organiz...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
We study entity ranking on the INEX entity track and propose a simple graph-based ranking approach that enables to combine scores on document and paragraph level. The combined app...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
In Japanese, it is quite common for the same word to be written in several different ways. This is especially true for katakana words which are typically used for transliterating ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...