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CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Using RankBoost to compare retrieval systems
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback
Implicit relevance feedback (IRF) is the process by which a search system unobtrusively gathers evidence on searcher interests from their interaction with the system. IRF is a new...
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Unified utility maximization framework for resource selection
This paper presents a unified utility framework for resource selection of distributed text information retrieval. This new framework shows an efficient and effective way to infer ...
Luo Si, James P. Callan
SAC
2006
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Light stemming approaches for the French, Portuguese, German and Hungarian languages
This paper describes and evaluates various general stemming approaches for the French, Portuguese (Brazilian), German and Hungarian languages. Based on the CLEF test-collections, ...
Jacques Savoy