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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Connecting the dots
Giovanna Roda
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Information access for personal media archives
Aiden R. Doherty, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jone...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Multimedia with a speech track: searching spontaneous conversational speech
After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 20...
Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Blog track research at TREC
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TRE...
Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Information-based models for ad hoc IR
We introduce in this paper the family of information-based models for ad hoc information retrieval. These models draw their inspiration from a long-standing hypothesis in IR, name...
Stéphane Clinchant, Éric Gaussier
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
EUSUM: extracting easy-to-understand english summaries for non-native readers
In this paper we investigate a novel and important problem in multi-document summarization, i.e., how to extract an easy-tounderstand English summary for non-native readers. Exist...
Xiaojun Wan, Huiying Li, Jianguo Xiao
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Search system requirements of patent analysts
Patent search tasks are difficult and challenging, often requiring expert patent analysts to spend hours, even days, sourcing relevant information. To aid them in this process, an...
Leif Azzopardi, Wim Vanderbauwhede, Hideo Joho
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Language-model-based pro/con classification of political text
Rawia Awadallah, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
On performance of topical opinion retrieval
We investigate the effectiveness of both the standard evaluation measures and the opinion component for topical opinion retrieval. We analyze how relevance is affected by opinio...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Incorporating global information into named entity recognition systems using relational context
The state-of-the-art in Named Entity Recognition relies on a combination of local features of the text and global knowledge to determine the types of the recognized entities. This...
Yuval Merhav, Filipe de Sá Mesquita, Denils...