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Croft, W.B.: Combining approaches to information retrieval (2000)
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- Abstract
- The combination of different text representations and search strategies has become a standard technique for improving the effectiveness of information retrieval. Combination, for example, has been studied extensively in the TREC evaluations and is the basis of the "meta-search" engines used on the Web. This paper examines the development of this technique, including both experimental results and the retrieval models that have been proposed as formal frameworks for combination. We show that combining approaches for information retrieval can be modeled as combining the outputs of multiple classifiers based on one or more representations, and that this simple model can provide explanations for many of the experimental results. We also show that this view of combination is very similar to the inference net model, and that a new approach to retrieval based on language models supports combination and can be integrated with the inference net model
- Series
- The Kluwer international series on information retrieval; 7
- Source
- Advances in information retrieval: Recent research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. Ed.: W.B. Croft
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Belkin, N.J.; Croft, W.B.: Retrieval techniques (1987)
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- Annual review of information science and technology. 22(1987), S.109-145
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Croft, W.B.: Advances in information retrieval : Recent research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (2000)
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- Content
- Enthält die Beiträge: CROFT, W.B.: Combining approaches to information retrieval; GREIFF, W.R.: The use of exploratory data analysis in information retrieval research; PONTE, J.M.: Language models for relevance feedback; PAPKA, R. u. J. ALLAN: Topic detection and tracking: event clustering as a basis for first story detection; CALLAN, J.: Distributed information retrieval; XU, J. u. W.B. CROFT: Topic-based language models for ditributed retrieval; LU, Z. u. K.S. McKINLEY: The effect of collection organization and query locality on information retrieval system performance; BALLESTEROS, L.A.: Cross-language retrieval via transitive translation; SANDERSON, M. u. D. LAWRIE: Building, testing, and applying concept hierarchies; RAVELA, S. u. C. LUO: Appearance-based global similarity retrieval of images
- Footnote
- Information retrieval - Relevanz - Information Retrieval Systeme - Verteilte Systeme - Multimedia - Bildverarbeitung
- LCSH
- Information retrieval
- Series
- The Kluwer international series on information retrieval; 7
- Subject
- Information retrieval
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Ballesteros, L.; Croft, W.B.: Statistical methods for cross-language information retrieval (1998)
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- Series
- The Kluwer International series on information retrieval
- Source
- Cross-language information retrieval. Ed.: G. Grefenstette
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Croft, W.B.; Metzler, D.; Strohman, T.: Search engines : information retrieval in practice (2010)
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- Abstract
- For introductory information retrieval courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in computer science, information science and computer engineering departments. Written by a leader in the field of information retrieval, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, is designed to give undergraduate students the understanding and tools they need to evaluate, compare and modify search engines. Coverage of the underlying IR and mathematical models reinforce key concepts. The book's numerous programming exercises make extensive use of Galago, a Java-based open source search engine. SUPPLEMENTS / Extensive lecture slides (in PDF and PPT format) / Solutions to selected end of chapter problems (Instructors only) / Test collections for exercises / Galago search engine
- LCSH
- Information retrieval
Information Storage and Retrieval
- RSWK
- Suchmaschine / Information Retrieval
- Subject
- Suchmaschine / Information Retrieval
Information retrieval
Information Storage and Retrieval
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Croft, W.B.: Approaches to intelligent information retrieval (1987)
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- Information processing and management. 23(1987), S.249-254
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Rajashekar, T.B.; Croft, W.B.: Combining automatic and manual index representations in probabilistic retrieval (1995)
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- Abstract
- Results from research in information retrieval have suggested that significant improvements in retrieval effectiveness can be obtained by combining results from multiple index representioms, query formulations, and search strategies. The inference net model of retrieval, which was designed from this point of view, treats information retrieval as an evidental reasoning process where multiple sources of evidence about document and query content are combined to estimate relevance probabilities. Uses a system based on this model to study the retrieval effectiveness benefits of combining these types of document and query information that are found in typical commercial databases and information services. The results indicate that substantial real benefits are possible
- Source
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 46(1995) no.4, S.272-283
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Turtle, H.; Croft, W.B.: Inference networks for document retrieval (1990)
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- Footnote
- Wiederabgedruckt in: Readings in information retrieval. Ed.: K. Sparck Jones u. P. Willett. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann 1997. S.287-298
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- Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on research and development in information retrieval
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Xu, J.; Croft, W.B.: Topic-based language models for distributed retrieval (2000)
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- Abstract
- Effective retrieval in a distributed environment is an important but difficult problem. Lack of effectiveness appears to have two major causes. First, existing collection selection algorithms do not work well on heterogeneous collections. Second, relevant documents are scattered over many collections and searching a few collections misses many relevant documents. We propose a topic-oriented approach to distributed retrieval. With this approach, we structure the document set of a distributed retrieval environment around a set of topics. Retrieval for a query involves first selecting the right topics for the query and then dispatching the search process to collections that contain such topics. The content of a topic is characterized by a language model. In environments where the labeling of documents by topics is unavailable, document clustering is employed for topic identification. Based on these ideas, three methods are proposed to suit different environments. We show that all three methods improve effectiveness of distributed retrieval
- Series
- The Kluwer international series on information retrieval; 7
- Source
- Advances in information retrieval: Recent research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. Ed.: W.B. Croft
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Croft, W.B.; Turtle, H.R.: Retrieval strategies for hypertext (1993)
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- Information processing and management. 29(1993) no.3, S.313-324
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Liu, X.; Croft, W.B.: Cluster-based retrieval using language models (2004)
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- SIGIR'04: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference an Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Ed.: K. Järvelin, u.a
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Belkin, N.J.; Croft, W.B.: Information filtering and information retrieval : two sides of the same coin? (1992)
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- Abstract
- One of nine articles in this issue of Communications of the ACM devoted to information filtering
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Krovetz, R.; Croft, W.B.: Lexical ambiguity and information retrieval (1992)
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- Abstract
- Reports on an analysis of lexical ambiguity in information retrieval text collections and on experiments to determine the utility of word meanings for separating relevant from nonrelevant documents. Results show that there is considerable ambiguity even in a specialised database. Word senses provide a significant separation between relevant and nonrelevant documents, but several factors contribute to determining whether disambiguation will make an improvement in performance such as: resolving lexical ambiguity was found to have little impact on retrieval effectiveness for documents that have many words in common with the query. Discusses other uses of word sense disambiguation in an information retrieval context
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- ACM transactions on information systems. 10(1992) no.2, S.115-141
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Croft, W.B.; Thompson, R.H.: I3R: a new approach to the desing of document retrieval systems (1987)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 38(1987), S.389-404
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Jing, Y.; Croft, W.B.: ¬An association thesaurus for information retrieval (199?)
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- Abstract
- Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent benefits for retrieval performance, and it is difficult to construct a thesaurus automatically for large text databases. In this paper, an approach, called PhraseFinder, is proposed to construct collection-dependent association thesauri automatically using large full-text document collections. The association thesaurus can be accessed through natural language queries in INQUERY, an information retrieval system based on the probabilistic inference network. Experiments are conducted in INQUERY to evaluate different types of association thesauri, and thesauri constructed for a variety of collections
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Croft, W.B.; Harper, D.J.: Using probabilistic models of document retrieval without relevance information (1979)
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- Abstract
- Based on a probablistic model, proposes strategies for the initial search and an intermediate search. Retrieval experiences with the Cranfield collection of 1,400 documents show that this initial search strategy is better than conventional search strategies both in terms of retrieval effectiveness and in terms of the number of queries that retrieve relevant documents. The intermediate search is a useful substitute for a relevance feedback search. A cluster search would be an effective alternative strategy.
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Croft, W.B.: Hypertext and information retrieval : what are the fundamental concepts? (1990)
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Croft, W.B.: What do people want from information retrieval? : the top 10 research issues for companies that use and sell IR systems (1995)
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Allan, J.; Croft, W.B.; Callan, J.: ¬The University of Massachusetts and a dozen TRECs (2005)
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- TREC: experiment and evaluation in information retrieval. Ed.: E.M. Voorhees, u. D.K. Harman
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Murdock, V.; Kelly, D.; Croft, W.B.; Belkin, N.J.; Yuan, X.: Identifying and improving retrieval for procedural questions (2007)
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- Abstract
- People use questions to elicit information from other people in their everyday lives and yet the most common method of obtaining information from a search engine is by posing keywords. There has been research that suggests users are better at expressing their information needs in natural language, however the vast majority of work to improve document retrieval has focused on queries posed as sets of keywords or Boolean queries. This paper focuses on improving document retrieval for the subset of natural language questions asking about how something is done. We classify questions as asking either for a description of a process or asking for a statement of fact, with better than 90% accuracy. Further we identify non-content features of documents relevant to questions asking about a process. Finally we demonstrate that we can use these features to significantly improve the precision of document retrieval results for questions asking about a process. Our approach, based on exploiting the structure of documents, shows a significant improvement in precision at rank one for questions asking about how something is done.
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- Information processing and management. 43(2007) no.1, S.181-203
