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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
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HICSS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Increasing Relevance of Smoking Cessation Messages in an Online Software Agent Environment
An online software agent that helps smokers quit was designed and tested. We created a library of categorized smoking cessation messages using meta-data corresponding to the Stage...
Todd Shimoda, Linda Stapel
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Relevance Score Normalization for Metasearch
Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...
Mark H. Montague, Javed A. Aslam
CLEF
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Web Person Name Disambiguation by Relevance Weighting of Extended Feature Sets
Abstract. This paper describes our approach to the Person Name Disambiguation clustering task in the Third Web People Search Evaluation Campaign(WePS3). The method focuses on two a...
Chong Long, Lei Shi