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EMNLP
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Positional Language Models for Clinical Information Retrieval
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
IPM
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A framework for selective query expansion
Query expansion is a well-known technique that has been shown to improve average retrieval performance. This technique has not been used in many operational systems because of the...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
CIVR
2004
Springer
111views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
An Inference Network Approach to Image Retrieval
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
Donald Metzler, R. Manmatha
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Speech user interfaces for information retrieval
The research proposed here concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a spoken query retrieval (SQR) system to access large document databases via voice. The main cha...
Juan E. Gilbert, Yapin Zhong