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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent
In most previous work on personalized search algorithms, the results for all queries are personalized in the same manner. However, as we show in this paper, there is a lot of vari...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Active feedback in ad hoc information retrieval
Information retrieval is, in general, an iterative search process, in which the user often has several interactions with a retrieval system for an information need. The retrieval ...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Relevance Feedback Retrieval of Time Series Data
There has been much recent interest in retrieval of time series data. Earlier work has used a fixed similarity metric (e.g., Euclidean distance) to determine the similarity betwee...
Eamonn J. Keogh, Michael J. Pazzani