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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Workshop on aggregated search
The Workshop on Aggregated seeks to define the research problems for aggregated search results, and to build a community of researchers working in this emerging area. Aggregated s...
Vanessa Murdock, Mounia Lalmas
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A study of query length
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...
Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Modeling expert finding as an absorbing random walk
We introduce a novel approach to expert finding based on multi-step relevance propagation from documents to related candidates. Relevance propagation is modeled with an absorbing ...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Combining document- and paragraph-based entity ranking
We study entity ranking on the INEX entity track and propose a simple graph-based ranking approach that enables to combine scores on document and paragraph level. The combined app...
Henning Rode, Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Crowdsourcing for relevance evaluation
Relevance evaluation is an essential part of the development and maintenance of information retrieval systems. Yet traditional evaluation approaches have several limitations; in p...
Omar Alonso, Daniel E. Rose, Benjamin Stewart