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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
The effect of negation on sentiment analysis and retrieval effectiveness
We investigate the problem of determining the polarity of sentiments when one or more occurrences of a negation term such as “not” appear in a sentence. The concept of the sco...
Lifeng Jia, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
CLEF
2004
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
DKE
2000
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15 years 6 months ago
MOSAIC: A fast multi-feature image retrieval system
Content-based image retrieval plays an important role in many multimedia applications. Images are typically retrieved based on a given sample image, a sketch or a simple descripti...
Shen-Tat Goh, Kian-Lee Tan