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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
An architecture for information retrieval over semi-collaborating Peer-to-Peer networks
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking is aimed at exploiting the potential of widely distributed information pools and its effortless access and retrieval irrespectively of underlying net...
Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose
TREC
2004
15 years 3 months ago
UIUC in HARD 2004--Passage Retrieval Using HMMs
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Evaluation of methods for relative comparison of retrieval systems based on clickthroughs
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
Jing He, Chengxiang Zhai, Xiaoming Li
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ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou