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Information retrieval
Known as:
Mean Average Precision
, Query (databases)
, IR
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Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information…
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2016
Review
2016
From Word Embeddings to Document Similarities for Improved Information Retrieval in Software Engineering
Xin Ye
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Hui Shen
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Xiao Ma
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Razvan C. Bunescu
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Chang Liu
International Conference on Software Engineering
2016
Corpus ID: 4280759
The application of information retrieval techniques to search tasks in software engineering is made difficult by the lexical gap…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Music Information Retrieval
Alicja Wieczorkowska
Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining
2009
Corpus ID: 14680007
Huge amount of audio resources, including music data, is becoming available in various forms, both analog and digital. Notes, CDs…
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Review
2009
Review
2009
Information Retrieval Models
D. Hiemstra
Information retrieval (Boston)
2009
Corpus ID: 8486563
Many applications that handle information on the internet would be completely inadequate without the support of information…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Positional language models for information retrieval
Yuanhua Lv
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ChengXiang Zhai
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on…
2009
Corpus ID: 6678854
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval
Emine Yilmaz
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J. Aslam
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S. Robertson
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on…
2008
Corpus ID: 9703307
In the field of information retrieval, one is often faced with the problem of computing the correlation between two ranked lists…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Automatic Recommendations for E-Learning Personalization Based on Web Usage Mining Techniques and Information Retrieval
Mohamed Koutheair Khribi
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M. Jemni
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O. Nasraoui
Eighth IEEE International Conference on Advanced…
2008
Corpus ID: 2410344
The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming one of the most preferred and widespread mediums of learning. Unfortunately, most of the…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Recovering traceability links in software artifact management systems using information retrieval methods
A. D. Lucia
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Fausto Fasano
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Rocco Oliveto
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G. Tortora
TSEM
2007
Corpus ID: 15021810
The main drawback of existing software artifact management systems is the lack of automatic or semi-automatic traceability link…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
J. Ponte
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W. Bruce Croft
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on…
1998
Corpus ID: 14103653
Models of document indexing and document retrieval have been extensively studied. The integration of these two classes of models…
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Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
A theoretical basis for the use of co-occurence data in information retrieval
Van Rijsbergen
1977
Corpus ID: 62560433
This paper provides a foundation for a practical way of improving the effectiveness of an automatic retrieval system. Its main…
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Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL THROUGH MAN‐MACHINE DIALOGUE
R. N. Oddy
1977
Corpus ID: 58689739
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new method of information retrieval by man‐machine interaction. The dialogue…
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