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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements
The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking ...
Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik
CORR
2008
Springer
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14 years 8 months ago
Characterising through Erasing: A Theoretical Framework for Representing Documents Inspired by Quantum Theory
The problem of representing text documents within an Information Retrieval system is formulated as an analogy to the problem of representing the quantum states of a physical syste...
Alvaro Francisco Huertas-Rosero, Leif Azzopardi, C...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
TREC
2000
14 years 11 months ago
English-Chinese Cross-Language IR Using Bilingual Dictionaries
This report describes the English-Chinese crosslanguage retrieval experiments at Berkeley for TREC-9 Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. We present a simple and effective ...
Aitao Chen, Hailing Jiang, Fredric C. Gey