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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Topic-oriented query expansion for web search
The contribution of this paper includes three folders: (1) To introduce a topic-oriented query expansion model based on the Information Bottleneck theory that classify terms into ...
Shao-Chi Wang, Yuzuru Tanaka
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Distributed ranking over peer-to-peer networks
Query flooding is a problem existing in Peer-to-Peer networks like Gnutella. Firework Query Model solves this problem by Peer Clustering and routes the query message more intellig...
Dexter Chi Wai Siu, Tak Pang Lau
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Smoothing clickthrough data for web search ranking
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Jianfeng Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiao Li, Kefeng Deng, Jian...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Has portfolio theory got any principles?
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirk...