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ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A Parameterised Search System
This paper introduces the concept of a Parameterised Search System (PSS), which allows flexibility in user queries, and, more importantly, allows system engineers to easily defin...
Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vries
CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Lower-bounding term frequency normalization
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Building a web thesaurus from web link structure
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Positional relevance model for pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai