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SIGIR
2004
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
WIDM
2004
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
WISE-cluster: clustering e-commerce search engines automatically
In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically clustering e-commerce search engines (ESEs) on the Web such that ESEs in the same cluster sell similar products. This all...
Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Fuzzy translation of cross-lingual spelling variants
We will present a novel two-step fuzzy translation technique for cross-lingual spelling variants. In the first stage, transformation rules are applied to source words to render th...
Ari Pirkola, Jarmo Toivonen, Heikki Keskustalo, Ka...
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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
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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...