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2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Catherine L. Smith, Paul B. Kantor
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
On profiling blogs with representative entries
With an explosive growth of blogs, information seeking in blogosphere becomes more and more challenging. One example task is to find the most relevant topical blogs against a give...
Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Aixin Sun
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Multi-document summarization via sentence-level semantic analysis and symmetric matrix factorization
Multi-document summarization aims to create a compressed summary while retaining the main characteristics of the original set of documents. Many approaches use statistics and mach...
Dingding Wang, Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Chris H. Q. D...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
Ming-Feng Tsai, Yu-Ting Wang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Towards breaking the quality curse.: a web-querying approach to web people search
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...