SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper explores the problem of computing pairwise similarity on document collections, focusing on the application of “more like this” queries in the life sciences domain. ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
With the continuing advances in data storage and communication technology, there has been an explosive growth of music information from different application domains. As an effe...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper investigates whether Web comments are of descriptive nature, that is, whether the combined text of a set of comments is similar in topic to the commented object. If so,...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper addresses the issue of automatically extracting keyphrases from document. Previously, this problem was formalized as classification and learning methods for classific...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Modern techniques for distributed information retrieval use a set of documents sampled from each server, but these samples have been underutilised in server selection. We describe...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Email spam filters are commonly trained on a sample of spam and ham (non-spam) messages. We investigate the effect on filter performance of using samples of spam and ham messag...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
We examine two basic sources for implicit relevance feedback on the segment level for search personalization: eye tracking and display time. A controlled study has been conducted ...