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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense
Although there are many papers examining ambiguity in Information Retrieval, this paper shows that there is a whole class of ambiguous word that past research has barely explored....
Mark Sanderson
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 15 days 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
78
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Blogger, stick to your story: modeling topical noise in blogs with coherence measures
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
Jiyin He, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson, Maarten ...
100
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SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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15 years 15 days ago
Towards realistic file-system benchmarks with CodeMRI
Benchmarks are crucial to understanding software systems and assessing their performance. In file-system research, synthetic benchmarks are accepted and widely used as substitutes...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...
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SWARM
2008
SPRINGER
15 years 14 days ago
Massively multi-robot simulation in stage
Abstract Stage is a C++ software library that simulates multiple mobile robots. Stage version 2, as the simulation backend for the Player/Stage system, may be the most commonly use...
Richard Vaughan