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Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence

Canadian AI 2002: Advances in Artificial Intelligence pp 339–343Cite as

Retrieval of Short Documents from Discussion Forums

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The prevalence of short and ill-written documents today has bought into question the effectiveness of various modern retrieval systems. We evaluated three retrieval systems, LSI, Keyphind and a Google simulator. The results showed that LSI performed better than Keyphind or the Google simulator. On the other hand, recall-precision graphs revealed that at low recall levels performance of the Google simulator was higher than those of LSI and Keyphind. When retrieval was weighted favouring more highly relevant documents the Google approach was favourable.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Fulai Wang & Jim Greer

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  1. Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave.W., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Robin Cohen

  2. IIT - e-Business, National Research Council, Incutech Brunswick, 2 Garland Court, Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada, E3B 6C2

    Bruce Spencer

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Wang, F., Greer, J. (2002). Retrieval of Short Documents from Discussion Forums. In: Cohen, R., Spencer, B. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47922-8_30

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47922-8_30

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