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CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A framework for selective query expansion
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SPIRE
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Inferring Query Performance Using Pre-retrieval Predictors.
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-cons...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
An application of text categorization methods to gene ontology annotation
This paper describes an application of IR and text categorization methods to a highly practical problem in biomedicine, specifically, Gene Ontology (GO) annotation. GO annotation...
Kazuhiro Seki, Javed Mostafa
ACSC
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A Markov random field model for term dependencies
This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...
Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft