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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Predicting category accesses for a user in a structured information space
In a categorized information space, predicting users' information needs at the category level can facilitate personalization, caching and other topic-oriented services. This ...
Mao Chen, Andrea S. LaPaugh, Jaswinder Pal Singh
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic combination of text classifiers using reliability indicators: models and results
The intuition that different text classifiers behave in qualitatively different ways has long motivated attempts to build a better metaclassifier via some combination of classifie...
Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised document classification using sequential information maximization
We present a novel sequential clustering algorithm which is motivated by the Information Bottleneck (IB) method. In contrast to the agglomerative IB algorithm, the new sequential ...
Noam Slonim, Nir Friedman, Naftali Tishby