SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Domain expertise can have an important influence on how people search. In this poster we present findings from a log-based study into how medical domain experts search the Web for...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
The primary business model behind Web search is based on textual advertising, where contextually relevant ads are displayed alongside search results. We address the problem of sel...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Recent efforts on the task of spoken document retrieval (SDR) have made use of speech lattices: speech lattices contain information about alternative speech transcription hypothes...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Generating query-biased summaries can take up a large part of the response time of interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems. This paper proposes to use document titles as a...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Information retrieval systems are compared using evaluation metrics, with researchers commonly reporting results for simple metrics such as precision-at-10 or reciprocal rank toge...