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CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Re-ranking search results using query logs
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
CLEF
2000
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
Bärbel Ripplinger
TREC
1994
15 years 3 months ago
Indexing Structures Derived from Syntax in TREC-3: System Description
: This paper describes an approach to information retrieval based on a syntactic analysis of the document texts and user queries, and from that analysis, the construction of tree s...
Alan F. Smeaton, Ruairi O'Donnell, Fergus Kelledy
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra