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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Using relevance feedback can significantly improve (ad hoc) retrieval effectiveness. Yet, if little feedback is available, effectively exploiting it is a challenge. To that end,...
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
The assumptions underlying the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) have led to a number of alternative approaches that cater or compensate for the PRP’s limitations. In this pos...
228
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Traditional recommendation algorithms often select products with the highest predicted ratings to recommend. However, earlier research in economics and marketing indicates that a ...
215
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the query concepts (e.g., terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. I...