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ECIR
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Beyond the Web: Retrieval in Social Information Spaces
We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
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
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Risk minimization and language modeling in text retrieval dissertation abstract
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
ChengXiang Zhai
CLEF
2000
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Translation Resources, Merging Strategies, and Relevance Feedback for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
This paper describes the official runs of the Twenty-One group for the first CLEF workshop. The Twenty-One group participated in the monolingual, bilingual and multilingual tasks....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Wessel Kraaij, Renée Pohlm...
IRFC
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Combining Wikipedia-Based Concept Models for Cross-Language Retrieval
Abstract. As a low-cost ressource that is up-to-date, Wikipedia recently gains attention as a means to provide cross-language brigding for information retrieval. Contradictory to a...
Benjamin Roth, Dietrich Klakow