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2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval
In this poster,we incorporate user query history, as context information, to improve the retrieval performance in interactive retrieval. Experiments using the TREC data show that ...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Single n-gram stemming
Stemming can improve retrieval accuracy, but stemmers are language-specific. Character n-gram tokenization achieves many of the benefits of stemming in a language independent way,...
James Mayfield, Paul McNamee
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Fractal summarization: summarization based on fractal theory
In this paper, we introduce the fractal summarization model based on the fractal theory. In fractal summarization, the important information is captured from the source text by ex...
Christopher C. Yang, Fu Lee Wang
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Syntactic features in question answering
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
Xiaoyan Li