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2008
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14 years 10 months ago
Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search
We describe a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation for intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our system, two or more users with ...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pe...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: salience of information needs in querying vs. browsing
Traditional information retrieval models assume that users express their information needs via text queries (i.e., their "talk"). In this poster, we consider Web browsin...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson...
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirk...