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TREC
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Opinion Retrieval Experiments Using Generative Models: Experiments for the TREC 2007 Blog Track
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
Yuki Arai, Koji Eguchi
ECIS
2003
15 years 7 months ago
A qualitative approach to investigating the behavioural definitions of the four-paradigm theory of information systems developme
Hirschheim, Klein and Lyytinen introduced the four-paradigm theory of information systems development (ISD) as a significant attempt to systematise developer assumptions. The theo...
Donal J. Flynn, Zahid I. Hussain
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
APVIS
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Loose capacity-constrained representatives for the qualitative visual analysis in molecular dynamics
Molecular dynamics is a widely used simulation technique to investigate material properties and structural changes under external forces. The availability of more powerful cluster...
Steffen Frey, Thomas Schlömer, Sebastian Grot...