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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Three web-based heuristics to determine a person's or institution's country of origin
We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists ...
Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitze...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Named graphs, provenance and trust
The Semantic Web consists of many RDF graphs nameable by URIs. This paper extends the syntax and semantics of RDF to cover such Named Graphs. This enables RDF statements that desc...
Jeremy J. Carroll, Christian Bizer, Patrick J. Hay...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Query relaxation using malleable schemas
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
IUI
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Have a say over what you see: evaluating interactive compression techniques
We all encounter many documents on a daily basis that we do not have time to process in their entirety. Nevertheless, we lack good tools to rapidly skim and identify key informati...
Simon Tucker, Steve Whittaker