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TREC
2001
14 years 11 months ago
Link-based Approaches for Text Retrieval
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Julien Gevrey, Stefan M. Rüger
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Expertise drift and query expansion in expert search
Pseudo-relevance feedback, or query expansion, has been shown to improve retrieval performance in the adhoc retrieval task. In such a scenario, a few top-ranked documents are assu...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
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FLAIRS
2007
15 years 9 hour ago
Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
Timothy W. Finin, Joel Sachs, Cynthia Sims Parr
LREC
2008
117views Education» more  LREC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
A Suite to Compile and Analyze an LSP Corpus
This paper presents a series of tools for the extraction of specialized corpora from the web and its subsequent analysis mainly with statistical techniques. It is an integrated sy...
Rogelio Nazar, Jorge Vivaldi, Teresa Cabré
VLDB
2002
ACM
161views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano