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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
An information-theoretic measure for document similarity
Recent work has demonstrated that the assessment of pairwise object similarity can be approached in an axiomatic manner using information theory. We extend this concept specifica...
Javed A. Aslam, Meredith Frost
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Error analysis of difficult TREC topics
Given the experimental nature of information retrieval, progress critically depends on analyzing the errors made by existing retrieval approaches and understanding their limitatio...
Xiao Hu, Sindhura Bandhakavi, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Assessing the effectiveness of pen-based input queries
In this poster, we describe an experiment exploring the effectiveness of a pen based text input device for use in query construction. Standard TREC queries were written, recognise...
Stephen Levin, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level
Previous research in novelty detection has focused on the task of finding novel material, given a set or stream of documents on a certain topic. This study investigates the more ...
James Allan, Courtney Wade, Alvaro Bolivar
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches
Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and...
Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft