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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Structure-aware indexing for keyword search in databases
Most of existing methods of keyword search over relational databases find the Steiner trees composed of relevant tuples as the answers. They identify the Steiner trees by discove...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Jianyong Wang
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ECIR
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Using Query Profiles for Clarification
Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...
Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
VLDB
1990
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Norbert Fuhr
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CADE
2008
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Combining Theorem Proving with Natural Language Processing
Abstract. The LogAnswer system is an application of automated reasoning to the field of open domain question-answering, the retrieval of answers to natural language questions regar...
Björn Pelzer, Ingo Glöckner