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CIKM
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Document quality models for web ad hoc retrieval
The quality of document content, which is an issue that is usually ignored for the traditional ad hoc retrieval task, is a critical issue for Web search. Web pages have a huge var...
Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2004
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
Einat Amitay, Nadav Har'El, Ron Sivan, Aya Soffer
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A document-centric approach to static index pruning in text retrieval systems
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke
ECIR
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Reranking Documents Based on Controlled Vocabulary
Abstract. There is a common availability of classification terms in online text collections and digital libraries, such as manually assigned keywords or key-phrases from a controll...
Jaap Kamps