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CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A system for finding biological entities that satisfy certain conditions from texts
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Wei Zhou, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
SIGIR
1995
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Probability Kinematics in Information Retrieval
We analyse the kinematics of probabilistic term weights at retrieval time for di erent Information Retrieval models. We present four models based on di erent notions of probabilis...
Fabio Crestani, C. J. van Rijsbergen
ATAL
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Multi-Agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer Based Information Retrieval System
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Partial collection replication versus caching for information retrieval systems
Abstract The explosion of content in distributed information retrieval (IR) systems requires new mechanisms to attain timely and accurate retrieval of unstructured text. In this pa...
Zhihong Lu, Kathryn S. McKinley
IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
Roger Mailler