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CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Spoken Versus Written Queries for Mobile Information Access: An Experiment on Mandarin Chinese
As Chinese is not alphabetic and the input of Chinese characters into computer is still a difficult and unsolved problem, voice retrieval of information becomes apparently an imp...
Heather Du, Fabio Crestani
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DEXA
2009
Springer
176views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Analyzing Document Retrievability in Patent Retrieval Settings
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber
CORR
2011
Springer
173views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
Probability Based Clustering for Document and User Properties
Information Retrieval systems can be improved by exploiting context information such as user and document features. This article presents a model based on overlapping probabilistic...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel