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JCDL
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Approaches to Collection Selection and Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Yves Rasolofo, Faiza Abbaci, Jacques Savoy
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Time is of the essence: improving recency ranking using Twitter data
Realtime web search refers to the retrieval of very fresh content which is in high demand. An effective portal web search engine must support a variety of search needs, including ...
Anlei Dong, Ruiqiang Zhang, Pranam Kolari, Jing Ba...
IJCAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Compiling Bayesian Networks Using Variable Elimination
Compiling Bayesian networks has proven an effective approach for inference that can utilize both global and local network structure. In this paper, we define a new method of comp...
Mark Chavira, Adnan Darwiche
AAAI
2000
15 years 8 months ago
What Sensing Tells Us: Towards a Formal Theory of Testing for Dynamical Systems
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
Sheila A. McIlraith, Richard B. Scherl