SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Web pages, like people, are often known by others in a variety of contexts. When those contexts are sufficiently distinct, a page's importance may be better represented by mu...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We introduce a grocery retrieval system that maps shopping lists written in natural language into actual products in a grocery store. We have developed the system using nine month...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Accurate web page classification often depends crucially on information gained from neighboring pages in the local web graph. Prior work has exploited the class labels of nearby p...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Many ranking models have been proposed in information retrieval, and recently machine learning techniques have also been applied to ranking model construction. Most of the existin...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
The Markov Random Walk model has been recently exploited for multi-document summarization by making use of the link relationships between sentences in the document set, under the ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Traditional document retrieval has shown to be a competitive approach in XML element retrieval, which is counter-intuitive since the element retrieval task requests all and only r...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a...