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ACL
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...
CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval
Motivated by the hypothesis that the retrieval performance of a weighting model is independent of the language in which queries and collection are expressed, we compared the retrie...
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
ACL
1996
15 years 1 months ago
Noun-Phrase Analysis in Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
David A. Evans, ChengXiang Zhai
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork
ICADL
2003
Springer
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Supporting Multilingual Information Retrieval in Web Applications: An English-Chinese Web Portal Experiment
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) techniques have been widely studied, but they are not often applied to and evaluated for W...
Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen