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# SIGIR 1998 — accepted papers

SIGIR 1998 is the 1998 edition of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). OpenAlex lists 75 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**75** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/1998/#works) · [**1,869** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/1998/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[The use of MMR, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producing summaries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291025)**Jaime Carbonell, Jade Goldstein*2,239 citations*
2. **[A language modeling approach to information retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/)**Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft*1,748 citations · our summary*
3. **[Web document clustering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290956)**Oren Zamir, Oren Etzioni*1,055 citations*
4. **[A study of retrospective and on-line event detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290953)**Yiming Yang, Tom Pierce, Jaime Carbonell*731 citations*
5. **[Distributional clustering of words for text classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290970)**L. Douglas Baker, Andrew Kachites McCallum*676 citations*
6. **[How reliable are the results of large-scale information retrieval experiments? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291014)**Justin Zobel*578 citations*
7. **[Improving automatic query expansion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290995)**Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley*557 citations*
8. **[On-line new event detection and tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290954)**James Allan, Ron Papka, Victor P. Lavrenko*530 citations*
9. **[Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290972)**Krishna A. Bharat, Monika Rauch Henzinger*444 citations*
10. **[Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290947)**Anastasios Tombros, Mark Sanderson*439 citations*

## All accepted papers (75)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[The use of MMR, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producing summaries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291025)**Jaime Carbonell, Jade Goldstein*2,239 citations*
2. **[A language modeling approach to information retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/)**Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft*1,748 citations · our summary*
3. **[Web document clustering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290956)**Oren Zamir, Oren Etzioni*1,055 citations*
4. **[A study of retrospective and on-line event detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290953)**Yiming Yang, Tom Pierce, Jaime Carbonell*731 citations*
5. **[Distributional clustering of words for text classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290970)**L. Douglas Baker, Andrew Kachites McCallum*676 citations*
6. **[How reliable are the results of large-scale information retrieval experiments? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291014)**Justin Zobel*578 citations*
7. **[Improving automatic query expansion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290995)**Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley*557 citations*
8. **[On-line new event detection and tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290954)**James Allan, Ron Papka, Victor P. Lavrenko*530 citations*
9. **[Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290972)**Krishna A. Bharat, Monika Rauch Henzinger*444 citations*
10. **[Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290947)**Anastasios Tombros, Mark Sanderson*439 citations*
11. **[Resolving ambiguity for cross-language retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290958)**Lisa A. Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft*309 citations*
12. **[Variations in relevance judgments and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291017)**Ellen M. Voorhees*303 citations*
13. **[Boosting and Rocchio applied to text filtering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290996)**Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer, Amit Singhal*301 citations*
14. **[Automatic essay grading using text categorization techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290965)**Leah S. Larkey*275 citations*
15. **[The effects of query structure and dictionary setups in dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290957)**Ari Pirkola*259 citations*
16. **[Efficient construction of large test collections ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291009)**Gordon V. Cormack, Christopher R. Palmer, Charles L. A. Clarke*234 citations*
17. **[Using a generalized instance set for automatic text categorization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290961)**Wai Pang Lam, Chao Yang Ho*188 citations*
18. **[Effective retrieval with distributed collections ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290974)**Jinxi Xu, Jamie Callan*154 citations*
19. **[A flexible model for retrieval of SGML documents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290980)**Sung Hyon Myaeng, Dong-Hyun Jang, Mun-Seok Kim et al.*132 citations*
20. **[Predicting the performance of linearly combined IR systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290991)**Christopher C. Vogt, Garrison W. Cottrell*118 citations*
21. **[Discovering typical structures of documents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290982)**Ke Wang, Huiqing Liu*114 citations*
22. **[Measures of relative relevance and ranked half-life ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291019)**Pia Borlund, Peter Ingwersen*96 citations*
23. **[The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290978)**Jaana Kekäläinen, Kalervo Järvelin*96 citations*
24. **[Aspect windows, 3-D visualizations, and indirect comparisons of information retrieval systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290987)**Russell Swan, James Allan*88 citations*
25. **[A theory of term weighting based on exploratory data analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290948)**Warren R. Greiff*87 citations*

[See all 75 papers in SIGIR 1998 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/1998/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (1)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/) [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/)**Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft*1998 · 1,869 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Jay Ponte**1 work here · 1,869 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-ponte/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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