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GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Affinity rank: a new scheme for efficient web search
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
TREC
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Spoken Document Retrieval For TREC-7 At Cambridge University
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University, on the TREC7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The broadcast news audio was transcribed using a 2-pass gender-dependent...
Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, G. L. Moore, Karen Spa...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Introducing the User-over-Ranking Hypothesis
The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...
Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen
ACL
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Spoken Interactive ODQA System: SPIQA
We have been investigating an interactive approach for Open-domain QA (ODQA) and have constructed a spoken interactive ODQA system, SPIQA. The system derives disambiguating querie...
Chiori Hori, Takaaki Hori, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki ...