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ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Estimating Translation Probabilities from the Web for Structured Queries on CLIR
We present two methods for estimating replacement probabilities without using parallel corpora. The first method proposed exploits the possible translation probabilities latent in ...
Xabier Saralegi, Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Text Clustering for Peer-to-Peer Networks with Probabilistic Guarantees
Text clustering is an established technique for improving quality in information retrieval, for both centralized and distributed environments. However, for highly distributed envir...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Norbert Fuhr
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Query Difficulty Prediction for Contextual Image Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
Xing Xing, Yi Zhang 0001, Mei Han
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Pseudo-Irrelevant Documents
Abstract. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) assumes that the topranking n documents of the initial retrieval are relevant and extracts expansion terms from them. In this work, we int...
Karthik Raman, Raghavendra Udupa, Pushpak Bhattach...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluation and User Preference Study on Spatial Diversity
Spatial diversity is a relatively new branch of research in the context of spatial information retrieval. Although the assumption that spatially diversified results may meet users&...
Jiayu Tang, Mark Sanderson