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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Language model for IR using collection information
In this paper, we explored how to use meta-data information in information retrieval task. We presented a new language model that is able to take advantage of the category informa...
Rong Jin, Luo Si, Alexander G. Hauptmann, James P....
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval
We propose a self-supervised word-segmentation technique for Chinese information retrieval. This method combines the advantages of traditional dictionary based approaches with cha...
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick ...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Do TREC web collections look like the web?
We measure the WT10g test collection, used in the TREC-9 and TREC 2001 Web Tracks, and the .GOV test collection used in the TREC 2002 Web and Interactive Tracks, with common measu...
Ian Soboroff
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft