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INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Constructing Japanese test collections for spoken term detection
Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) and Spoken Term Detection (STD) have been two of the most intensively investigated topics in spoken document processing research according to the e...
Yoshiaki Itoh, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Xinhui Hu, Hir...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Positional Language Models for Clinical Information Retrieval
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
JASIS
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
New event detection and topic tracking in Turkish
Topic detection and tracking (TDT) applications aim to organize the temporally ordered stories of a news stream according to the events. Two major problems in TDT are new event de...
Fazli Can, Seyit Kocberber, Ozgur Baglioglu, Suley...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Do TREC web collections look like the web?
We measure the WT10g test collection, used in the TREC-9 and TREC 2001 Web Tracks, and the .GOV test collection used in the TREC 2002 Web and Interactive Tracks, with common measu...
Ian Soboroff
IR
2000
13 years 4 months ago
A Task-Oriented Non-Interactive Evaluation Methodology for Information Retrieval Systems
Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...
Jane Reid
JASIS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Building a reusable test collection for question answering
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Test Collections for Spoken Document Retrieval from Lecture Audio Data
The Spoken Document Processing Working Group, which is part of the special interest group of spoken language processing of the Information Processing Society of Japan, is developi...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Kiyoaki Aikawa, Yoshiaki Itoh, Tat...
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Producing a Test Collection for Patent Machine Translation in the Seventh NTCIR Workshop
In aiming at research and development on machine translation, we produced a test collection for Japanese-English machine translation in the seventh NTCIR Workshop. This paper desc...
Atsushi Fujii, Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto, Take...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The patent mining task in the seventh NTCIR workshop
This paper introduces the Patent Mining Task of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop and the test collections produced in this task. The task's goal was the classification of research ...
Hidetsugu Nanba, Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama, Ta...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Reusable test collections through experimental design
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...