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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Using subspace analysis for event detection from web click-through data
Although most of existing research usually detects events by analyzing the content or structural information of Web documents, a recent direction is to study the usage data. In th...
Ling Chen 0002, Yiqun Hu, Wolfgang Nejdl
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
iRobot: an intelligent crawler for web forums
We study in this paper the Web forum crawling problem, which is a very fundamental step in many Web applications, such as search engine and Web data mining. As a typical user-crea...
Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang, Lei ...
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
CP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Solving Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming Problems by Constraint Partitioning
Abstract. In this paper, we present a constraint-partitioning approach for finding local optimal solutions of large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs). Ba...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen