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Report on the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Health Search and Discovery
"... Abstract The workshop brought together 40 researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss search and discovery in the medical domain. Presentations and discussions spanned several challenging and important topics, including directions improving the accessibility of medical and h ..."
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and health information for lay people (with associated enhancements to result ranking algorithms and search interfaces), and methods for discovering biomedical phenomena from the information that people seek online, as evidenced in query streams and other sources such as social and news media. A thread
Recency is good: expanding with fresh news improves event detection in Twitter
"... Twitter is a popular microblogging site that is a good source of real-time information. Detecting events in Twitter is an ongoing research effort and a fundamental task is clustering tweets according to which (news) event they describe. Document expansion can improve this clustering, especially for ..."
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Twitter is a popular microblogging site that is a good source of real-time information. Detecting events in Twitter is an ongoing research effort and a fundamental task is clustering tweets according to which (news) event they describe. Document expansion can improve this clustering, especially
Detecting Relationships among Categories using Text Classification
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"... Discovering relationships among concepts and categories is crucial in various information systems. The authors ’ objective was to discover such relationships among document categories. Traditionally, such relationships are represented in the form of a concept hierarchy, grouping some categories unde ..."
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to 73 % on 20 News groups (20NG), up to 68 % on 17 categories in the Open Directories Project (ODP17), and more than twice on ODP46 and Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) data sets. Their results also indicate that using misclassification information stemming from passage
Geotemporal access to multilingual documents
- In: R. Purves and C. Jones (eds) Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2004
, 2004
"... Most news documents are about something which happened in some place at some particular time. Thus news documents can, in principle, be searched on these dimensions. The reality, as with all information retrieval, is more complex. Place names are ambiguous (e.g. is Aberdeen in Scotland, Maryland or ..."
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Most news documents are about something which happened in some place at some particular time. Thus news documents can, in principle, be searched on these dimensions. The reality, as with all information retrieval, is more complex. Place names are ambiguous (e.g. is Aberdeen in Scotland, Maryland
WORKSHOP REPORT Multimedia with a Speech Track: Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech
"... After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2009. The goal of the SSCS series is to serve as a forum that brings together the disciplines that collaborate on spoken co ..."
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After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2009. The goal of the SSCS series is to serve as a forum that brings together the disciplines that collaborate on spoken
POUR L'OBTENTION DU GRADE DE DOCTEUR ÈS SCIENCES PAR
"... 2010 to my wife, Joyce, and my family...- Résumé- ..."