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SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Web-derived resources for web information retrieval: from conceptual hierarchies to attribute hierarchies
A weakly-supervised extraction method identifies concepts within conceptual hierarchies, at the appropriate level of specificity (e.g., Bank vs. Institution), to which attribute...
Marius Pasca, Enrique Alfonseca
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
Paul McNamee, Charles K. Nicholas, James Mayfield
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Detecting spammers and content promoters in online video social networks
A number of online video social networks, out of which YouTube is the most popular, provides features that allow users to post a video as a response to a discussion topic. These f...
Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virg&...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Telling experts from spammers: expertise ranking in folksonomies
Michael G. Noll, Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibb...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Revisiting logical imaging for information retrieval
Retrieval with Logical Imaging is derived from belief revision and provides a novel mechanism for estimating the relevance of a document through logical implication (i.e. P(q → ...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
What queries are likely to recur in web search?
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Incorporating prior knowledge into a transductive ranking algorithm for multi-document summarization
This paper presents a transductive approach to learn ranking functions for extractive multi-document summarization. At the first stage, the proposed approach identifies topic th...
Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier