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2006
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Implementation and evaluation of a quality-based search engine
In this paper, an approach for the implementation of a qualitybased Web search engine is proposed. Quality retrieval is introduced and an overview on previous efforts to implement...
Thomas Mandl
AI
2002
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Ben Carterette
ICTIR
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Modeling Expected Utility of Multi-session Information Distillation
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
Yiming Yang, Abhimanyu Lad
JCDL
2006
ACM
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Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms
Currently in document retrieval there are many algorithms each with different strengths and weakness. There is some difficulty, however, in evaluating the impact of the test quer...
Chris Jordan, Carolyn R. Watters, Qigang Gao