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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A study of query length
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
ICDT
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Towards a theory of search queries
The need to manage diverse information sources has triggered the rise of very loosely structured data models, known as "dataspace models." Such information management sy...
George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk V...
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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
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CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The impact of author ranking in a library catalogue
The field of information retrieval has witnessed over 50 years of research on retrieval methods for metadata descriptions and controlled indexing languages, the prototypical exam...
Jaap Kamps
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas