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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Indexing emails and email threads for retrieval
Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...
Yejun Wu, Douglas W. Oard
JCDL
2005
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Icon abacus: positional display of document attributes
This paper presents icon abacus, a space-efficient technique for displaying document attributes by automatic positioning of document icons. It displays the value of an attribute b...
Eric A. Bier, Adam Perer
MM
2010
ACM
178views Multimedia» more  MM 2010»
14 years 12 months ago
Social audio features for advanced music retrieval interfaces
The size of personal music collections has constantly increased over the past years. As a result, the traditional metadata based lists to browse these collections have reached the...
Michael Kuhn 0002, Roger Wattenhofer, Samuel Welte...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Page hunt: improving search engines using human computation games
There has been a lot of work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines. In this paper, we suggest using human computation games to elicit data from players t...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...