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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Personal vs non-personal blogs: initial classification experiments
We address the task of separating personal from non-personal blogs, and report on a set of baseline experiments where we compare the performance on a small set of features across ...
Erik Elgersma, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Generalising multiple capture-recapture to non-uniform sample sizes
Algorithms in distributed information retrieval often rely on accurate knowledge of the size of a collection. The "multiple capture-recapture" method of Shokouhi et al. ...
Paul Thomas
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Exploiting sequential dependencies for expert finding
We propose an expert finding method based on assumption of sequential dependence between a candidate expert and the query terms in the scope of a document. We assume that the stre...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Precision-at-ten considered redundant
Information retrieval systems are compared using evaluation metrics, with researchers commonly reporting results for simple metrics such as precision-at-10 or reciprocal rank toge...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tet...
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Term clouds as surrogates for user generated speech
User generated spoken audio remains a challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology and content-based audio surrogates derived from ASR-transcripts must be error rob...
Manos Tsagkias, Martha Larson, Maarten de Rijke