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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Feature selection for automatic taxonomy induction
Most existing automatic taxonomy induction systems exploit one or more features to induce a taxonomy; nevertheless there is no systematic study examining which are the best featur...
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
It pays to be picky: an evaluation of thread retrieval in online forums
Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and ...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Carbonell
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A comparison of retrieval-based hierarchical clustering approaches to person name disambiguation
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
Christof Monz, Wouter Weerkamp
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Evaluating effects of machine translation accuracy on cross-lingual patent retrieval
We organized a machine translation (MT) task at the Seventh NTCIR Workshop. Participating groups were requested to machine translate sentences in patent documents and also search ...
Atsushi Fujii, Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto, Take...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A graph-based approach to mining multilingual word associations from wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a graph-based approach to constructing a multilingual association dictionary from Wikipedia, in which we exploit two kinds of links in Wikipedia articles...
Zheng Ye, Xiangji Huang, Hongfei Lin