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ACL
2009
15 years 1 months ago
A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...
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JOC
2007
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15 years 3 months ago
Robust Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to retrieve a data item of its choice from a database, such that the servers storing the database do not gain informat...
Amos Beimel, Yoav Stahl
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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
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CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Using RankBoost to compare retrieval systems
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari