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TREC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with Prediction of Query Difficulty
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
RIAO
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Subject Knowledge, Thesaurus-assisted Query Expansion and Search Success
This study explored how experts and novices in pedagogics expanded queries supported by the ERIC thesaurus, and how this was connected to the search success in an easy and a diffi...
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari
UAI
1998
15 years 5 months ago
Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
ALT
2009
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Canonical Horn Representations and Query Learning
Abstract. We describe an alternative construction of an existing canonical representation for definite Horn theories, the Guigues-Duquenne basis (or GD basis), which minimizes a n...
Marta Arias, José L. Balcázar
MOBIDE
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Evaluation of probabilistic queries in moving objects databases
The representation of moving objects in spatial database systems has become an important research topic in recent years. As it is not realistic to track and store the location of ...
Talel Abdessalem, Laurent Decreusefond, José...