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2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
An investigation of linguistic features and clustering algorithms for topical document clustering
We investigate four hierarchical clustering methods (single-link, complete-link, groupwise-average, and single-pass) and two linguistically motivated text features (noun phrase he...
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Luis Gravano, Ankineed...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
On the design and evaluation of a multi-dimensional approach to information retrieval
We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval
The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Topical locality in the Web
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which th...
Brian D. Davison