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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
WEBI
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On Using Query Logs for Static Index Pruning
Static index pruning techniques aim at removing from the posting lists of an inverted file the references to documents which are likely to be not relevant for answering user querie...
Hoang Thanh Lam, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvest...
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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
BMCBI
2005
131views more  BMCBI 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
Critical evaluation of the JDO API for the persistence and portability requirements of complex biological databases
Background: Complex biological database systems have become key computational tools used daily by scientists and researchers. Many of these systems must be capable of executing on...
Marko Srdanovic, Ulf Schenk, Michael Schwieger, Fa...