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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito
HCI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Web Resource Selection for Dialogue System Generating Natural Responses
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
Masashi Inoue, Takuya Matsuda, Shoichi Yokoyama
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia
We explore statistical properties of links within Wikipedia. We demonstrate that a simple algorithm can predict many of the links that would normally be added to a new article, wit...
Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L. A. Clarke, Shlomo Gev...
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
What's in a Link? From Document Importance to Topical Relevance
Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps