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ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Predicting Query Performance via Classification
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
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DBISP2P
2004
Springer
70views Database» more  DBISP2P 2004»
15 years 6 months ago
Using Information Retrieval Techniques to Route Queries in an InfoBeacons Network
We present the InfoBeacons system, in which a peer-to-peer network of beacons cooperates to route queries to the best information sources. The routing in our system uses techniques...
Brian F. Cooper
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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Bin Tan, Fuchun Peng
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Towards breaking the quality curse.: a web-querying approach to web people search
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
VLDB
2006
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2006»
16 years 27 days ago
Answering queries using materialized views with minimum size
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
Rada Chirkova, Chen Li, Jia Li