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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-factor clustering for a marketplace search interface
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
Neel Sundaresan, Kavita Ganesan, Roopnath Grandhi
MIR
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic web image gathering
We propose a new method for automated large scale gathering of Web images relevant to specified concepts. Our main goal is to build a knowledge base associated with as many conce...
Keiji Yanai, Kobus Barnard
MM
2004
ACM
154views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
PLSA-based image auto-annotation: constraining the latent space
We address the problem of unsupervised image auto-annotation with probabilistic latent space models. Unlike most previous works, which build latent space representations assuming ...
Florent Monay, Daniel Gatica-Perez