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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms
Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an i...
Luo Si, Jamie Callan
CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Improving Automatic Query Expansion
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
FACTO: a fact lookup engine based on web tables
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Chao Liu
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
MaskIt: privately releasing user context streams for personalized mobile applications
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
Michaela Götz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke