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ACMIDC
2010
15 years 10 months ago
TeddIR: tangible information retrieval for children
Despite several efforts to make search engines more childfriendly, children still have trouble using systems that require keyboard input. We present TeddIR: a system using a tangi...
Michel Jansen, Wim Bos, Paul E. van der Vet, Theo ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A comparative study of methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback
We systematically compare five representative state-of-theart methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback in ad hoc information retrieval, including two var...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
Semantic Search Meets the Web
While semantic search technologies have been proven to work well in specific domains, they still have to confront two main challenges to scale up to the Web in its entirety. In th...
Miriam Fernández, Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabo...
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
TableRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Table Search and Retrieval
Tables are ubiquitous in web pages and scientific documents. With the explosive development of the web, tables have become a valuable information repository. Therefore, effective...
Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles