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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on wikipedia
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) via query-expansion has been proven to be effective in many information retrieval (IR) tasks. In most existing work, the top-ranked documents from...
Yang Xu, Gareth J. F. Jones, Bin Wang
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirk...
RIAO
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Using Prior Information Derived from Citations in Literature Search
Researchers spent a large amount of their time searching through an ever increasing number of scientific articles. Although users of scientific search engines prefer the ranking o...
Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke
ICAIL
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Opinion mining in legal blogs
We perform a survey into the scope and utility of opinion mining in legal Weblogs (a.k.a. blawgs). The number of `blogs' in the legal domain is growing at a rapid pace and ma...
Jack G. Conrad, Frank Schilder
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua