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ECIR
1998
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Independence of Contributing Retrieval Strategies in Data Fusion for Effective Information Retrieval
: In information retrieval, data fusion is a technique for combining the outputs of more than one retrieval strategy which rank documents for retrieval. One of the observations oft...
Alan F. Smeaton
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
KDD
2009
ACM
228views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
A generalized Co-HITS algorithm and its application to bipartite graphs
Recently many data types arising from data mining and Web search applications can be modeled as bipartite graphs. Examples include queries and URLs in query logs, and authors and ...
Hongbo Deng, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
CIVR
2008
Springer
220views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Web-based information content and its application to concept-based video retrieval
Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...
Alexander Haubold, Apostol Natsev
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Portfolio theory of information retrieval
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu