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ECIR
2007
Springer
15 years 21 days ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Evaluation over thousands of queries
Information retrieval evaluation has typically been performed over several dozen queries, each judged to near-completeness. There has been a great deal of recent work on evaluatio...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...
IR
2007
14 years 11 months ago
An empirical study of tokenization strategies for biomedical information retrieval
Due to the great variation of biological names in biomedical text, appropriate tokenization is an important preprocessing step for biomedical information retrieval. Despite its im...
Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai
DEBU
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
Provenance in Databases: Past, Current, and Future
The need to understand and manage provenance arises in almost every scientific application. In many cases, information about provenance constitutes the proof of correctness of re...
Wang Chiew Tan