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APCCM
2004
15 years 7 months ago
An Adaptive Information Retrieval System Based on Associative Networks
In this paper we present a multilingual information retrieval system that provides access to Tourism information by exploiting the intuitiveness of natural language. In particular...
Helmut Berger, Michael Dittenbach, Dieter Merkl
UAI
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
TASLP
2002
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15 years 5 months ago
A system for spoken query information retrieval on mobile devices
Abstract--With the proliferation of handheld devices, information access on mobile devices is a topic of growing relevance. This paper presents a system that allows the user to sea...
E. Chang, Frank Seide, Helen M. Meng, Zhuoran Chen...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Understanding user goals in web search
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Daniel E. Rose, Danny Levinson