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2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Clarity re-visited
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Active query selection for learning rankers
Methods that reduce the amount of labeled data needed for training have focused more on selecting which documents to label than on which queries should be labeled. One exception t...
Mustafa Bilgic, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Looking inside the box: context-sensitive translation for cross-language information retrieval
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) today is dominated by techniques that use token-to-token mappings from bilingual dictionaries. Yet, state-of-the-art statistical transl...
Ferhan Türe, Jimmy J. Lin, Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Will this #hashtag be popular tomorrow?
Hashtags are widely used in Twitter to define a shared context for events or topics. In this paper, we aim to predict hashtag popularity in near future (i.e., next day). Given a ...
Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, Gao Cong