Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 853-854

  Bendersky, Michael ^a   Kurland, Oren ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Centrality; Passage language models; Passage based document retrieval; Passage document graphs

Indexed keywords

CENTRALITY; DOCUMENT RANKING METHODS; DOCUMENT RETRIEVALS; EDGE WEIGHTS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; PASSAGE LANGUAGE MODELS; PASSAGE-BASED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; PASSAGE-DOCUMENT GRAPHS; QUERY SIMILARITIES; RANKING PERFORMANCES; SEARCH RESULTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; RHENIUM; USER INTERFACES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57349196306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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