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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
The detection and improvement of low-quality information is a key concern in Web applications that are based on user-generated content; a popular example is the online encyclopedi...
205
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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
With its close ties to the Web, the IR community is destined to leverage the dissemination and collaboration capabilities that the Web provides today. Especially with the advent o...
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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
164
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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
We give a fresh look into score normalization for merging result-lists, isolating the problem from other components. We focus on three of the simplest, practical, and widelyused l...