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CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Examining the Robustness of Evaluation Metrics for Patent Retrieval with Incomplete Relevance Judgements
Recent years have seen a growing interest in research into patent retrieval. One of the key issues in conducting information retrieval (IR) research is meaningful evaluation of the...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
"They Are Out There, If You Know Where to Look": Mining Transliterations of OOV Query Terms for Cross-Language Information Retri
It is well known that the use of a good Machine Transliteration system improves the retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems when the query and ...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, Anton Bakalov, Ab...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Choosing the Best MT Programs for CLIR Purposes - Can MT Metrics Be Helpful?
Abstract. This paper describes usage of MT metrics in choosing the best candidates for MT-based query translation resources. Our main metrics is METEOR, but we also use NIST and BL...
Kimmo Kettunen
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Visual Concepts to Improve Text-Based Image Retrieval
In this paper, we study how to automatically exploit visual concepts in a text-based image retrieval task. First, we use Forest of Fuzzy Decision Trees (FFDTs) to automatically ann...
Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Christophe Mar...
BTW
2009
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Thomas Mandl