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IWC
1998
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14 years 11 months ago
How many relevances in information retrieval?
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...
Stefano Mizzaro
WEBDB
2005
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Vague Content and Structure (VCAS) Retrieval for Document-centric XML Collections
Querying document-centric XML collections with structure conditions improves retrieval precisions. The structures of such XML collections, however, are often too complex for users...
Shaorong Liu, Wesley W. Chu, Ruzan Shahinian
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
GIR
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Handling Locations in Search Engine Queries
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva, Sérgi...
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A framework for selective query expansion
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft