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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
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
TJS
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
The MAGNeT Toolkit: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Abstract-The current trend in constructing high-performance computing systems is to connect a large number of machines via a fast interconnect or a large-scale network such as the ...
Wu-chun Feng, Mark K. Gardner, Jeffrey R. Hay
ICAIL
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Query-based opinion summarization for legal blog entries
We present the first report of automatic sentiment summarization in the legal domain. This work is based on processing a set of legal questions with a system consisting of a semi...
Jack G. Conrad, Jochen L. Leidner, Frank Schilder,...
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VLDB
2005
ACM
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16 years 14 days ago
Distributed Privacy Preserving Information Sharing
In this paper, we address issues related to sharing information in a distributed system consisting of autonomous entities, each of which holds a private database. Semi-honest beha...
Nan Zhang 0004, Wei Zhao