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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
MM
2004
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Effective automatic image annotation via a coherent language model and active learning
Image annotations allow users to access a large image database with textual queries. There have been several studies on automatic image annotation utilizing machine learning techn...
Rong Jin, Joyce Y. Chai, Luo Si
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Linear discriminant model for information retrieval
This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...
Jianfeng Gao, Haoliang Qi, Xinsong Xia, Jian-Yun N...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu