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RIAO
2000
15 years 9 months ago
Allowing users to weight search terms
Informationretrieval systems typically weight the importance of search terms according to document and collection statistics (such as by using tf idf scores, where less commonterm...
Ronald Fagin, Yoëlle S. Maarek
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Classification-enhanced ranking
Many have speculated that classifying web pages can improve a search engine's ranking of results. Intuitively results should be more relevant when they match the class of a q...
Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Marie Svore, Susan T. Duma...
IPM
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Percent perfect performance (PPP)
An information retrieval performance measure that is interpreted as the percent of perfect performance (PPP) can be used to study the effects of the inclusion of specific documen...
Robert M. Losee
KDD
2012
ACM
243views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
13 years 10 months ago
Storytelling in entity networks to support intelligence analysts
Intelligence analysts grapple with many challenges, chief among them is the need for software support in storytelling, i.e., automatically ‘connecting the dots’ between dispar...
M. Shahriar Hossain, Patrick Butler, Arnold P. Boe...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...