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ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia
We explore statistical properties of links within Wikipedia. We demonstrate that a simple algorithm can predict many of the links that would normally be added to a new article, wit...
Kelly Y. Itakura, Charles L. A. Clarke, Shlomo Gev...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Combining Global and Local Semantic Contexts for Improving Biomedical Information Retrieval
In the context of biomedical information retrieval (IR), this paper explores the relationship between the document’s global context and the query’s local context in an attempt ...
Duy Dinh, Lynda Tamine
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Back to the Roots: Mean-Variance Analysis of Relevance Estimations
Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
137
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ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Towards Quantum-Based DB+IR Processing Based on the Principle of Polyrepresentation
The cognitively motivated principle of polyrepresentation still lacks a theoretical foundation in IR. In this work, we discuss two competing polyrepresentation frameworks that are ...
David Zellhöfer, Ingo Frommholz, Ingo Schmitt...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
An Analysis of Time-Instability in Web Search Results
Jinyoung Kim, Vitor R. Carvalho
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval
Due to many unique characteristics of forum data, forum post retrieval is different from traditional document retrieval and web search, raising interesting research questions abou...
Huizhong Duan, Chengxiang Zhai
182
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ECCC
2011
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Optimal heuristic algorithms for the image of an injective function
The existence of optimal algorithms is not known for any decision problem in NP \ P. We consider the problem of testing the membership in the image of an injective function. We co...
Edward A. Hirsch, Dmitry Itsykson, Valeria Nikolae...
144
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ECCC
2011
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ReachFewL = ReachUL
We show that two complexity classes introduced about two decades ago are equal. ReachUL is the class of problems decided by nondeterministic log-space machines which on every inpu...
Brady Garvin, Derrick Stolee, Raghunath Tewari, N....
ECCC
2011
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14 years 7 months ago
Extractors for circuit sources
Emanuele Viola