Sciweavers

8298 search results - page 491 / 1660
» Query-Free Information Retrieval
Sort
View
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection
Modern techniques for distributed information retrieval use a set of documents sampled from each server, but these samples have been underutilised in server selection. We describe...
Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi
ISMIR
2005
Springer
158views Music» more  ISMIR 2005»
16 years 13 days ago
Exploiting Musical Connections: A Proposal for Support of Work Relationships in a Digital Music Library
Musical works in the Western art music tradition exist in a complex, inter-related web. Works that are derivative or part of another work are common; however, most music informati...
Jenn Riley
SIGIR
2004
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Penalisation-Based Ranking Approach for the Mixed Monolingual Task of WebCLEF 2006
This paper presents an approach of a cross-lingual information retrieval which uses a ranking method based on a penalisation version of the Jaccard formula. The obtained results a...
David Pinto, Paolo Rosso, Ernesto Jiménez