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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Fast query expansion using approximations of relevance models
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Clarity re-visited
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
106views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Flood Little, Cache More: Effective Result-Reuse in P2P IR Systems
State-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2P IR) systems suffer from their lack of response time guarantee especially with scale. To address this issue, a number of tec...
Christian Zimmer, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Gerhard We...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
235views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
15 years 12 months ago
Quality and efficiency in high dimensional nearest neighbor search
Nearest neighbor (NN) search in high dimensional space is an important problem in many applications. Ideally, a practical solution (i) should be implementable in a relational data...
Yufei Tao, Ke Yi, Cheng Sheng, Panos Kalnis