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WWW
2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Clustering user queries of a search engine
In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
Ji-Rong Wen, Jian-Yun Nie, HongJiang Zhang
SSD
1993
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
A Small Set of Formal Topological Relationships Suitable for End-User Interaction
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
User oriented link function classification
Currently most link-related applications treat all links in the same web page to be identical. One link-related application usually requires one certain property of hyperlinks but...
Mingliang Zhu, Weiming Hu, Ou Wu, Xi Li, Xiaoqin Z...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Catherine L. Smith, Paul B. Kantor