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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
Xing Yi, James Allan
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Investigating the exhaustivity dimension in content-oriented XML element retrieval evaluation
INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...
Paul Ogilvie, Mounia Lalmas
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Easing Erroneous Translations in Cross-Language Image Retrieval Using Word Associations
When short queries and short image annotations are used in text-based cross-language image retrieval, small changes in word usage due to translation errors may decrease the retriev...
Masashi Inoue
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett