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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information retrieval
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Hao Yang, Xing Wei
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ICDE
2009
IEEE
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16 years 5 months ago
Weighted Proximity Best-Joins for Information Retrieval
We consider the problem of efficiently computing weighted proximity best-joins over multiple lists, with applications in information retrieval and extraction. We are given a multi-...
AnHai Doan, Haixun Wang, Hao He, Jun Yang 0001, Ri...
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ICTIR
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval
We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps
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CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation
In this paper, we present our Hindi to English and Marathi to English CLIR systems developed as part of our participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc Bilingual task. We take a query tr...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Dam...
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam