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2004
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
An application of text categorization methods to gene ontology annotation
This paper describes an application of IR and text categorization methods to a highly practical problem in biomedicine, specifically, Gene Ontology (GO) annotation. GO annotation...
Kazuhiro Seki, Javed Mostafa
IS
2006
14 years 9 months ago
Query performance prediction
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
ACSC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A Markov random field model for term dependencies
This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...
Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft