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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A ranking approach to target detection for automatic link generation
We focus on the task of target detection in automatic link generation with Wikipedia, i.e., given an N-gram in a snippet of text, find the relevant Wikipedia concepts that explai...
Jiyin He, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Improving sentence retrieval with an importance prior
The retrieval of sentences is a core task within Information Retrieval. In this poster we employ a Language Model that incorporates a prior which encodes the importance of sentenc...
Leif Azzopardi, Ronald T. Fernández, David ...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Freshness matters: in flowers, food, and web authority
The collective contributions of billions of users across the globe each day result in an ever-changing web. In verticals like news and real-time search, recency is an obvious sign...
Na Dai, Brian D. Davison
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Short text classification in twitter to improve information filtering
In microblogging services such as Twitter, the users may become overwhelmed by the raw data. One solution to this problem is the classification of short text messages. As short te...
Bharath Sriram, Dave Fuhry, Engin Demir, Hakan Fer...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The demographics of web search
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Image search by concept map
In this paper, we present a novel image search system, image search by concept map. This system enables users to indicate not only what semantic concepts are expected to appear bu...
Hao Xu, Jingdong Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Linking wikipedia to the web
We investigate the task of finding links from Wikipedia pages to external web pages. Such external links significantly extend the information in Wikipedia with information from ...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Context-aware ranking in web search
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Biao Xiang, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xiaohui Sun, En...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Predicting searcher frustration
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
Henry A. Feild, James Allan, Rosie Jones