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ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels
We introduce perturbation kernels, a new class of similarity measure for information retrieval that casts word similarity in terms of multi-task learning. Perturbation kernels mode...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Explaining User Performance in Information Retrieval: Challenges to IR Evaluation
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
Kalervo Järvelin
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Training Data Cleaning for Text Classification
Abstract. In text classification (TC) and other tasks involving supervised learning, labelled data may be scarce or expensive to obtain; strategies are thus needed for maximizing t...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis
Abstract. We have found that the nearest neighbor (NN) test is an insufficient measure of the cluster hypothesis. The NN test is a local measure of the cluster hypothesis. Designer...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
A Four-Factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval
In order to bridge the “Semantic gap”, a number of relevance feedback (RF) mechanisms have been applied to content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However current RF techniques i...
Haiming Liu 0002, Victoria S. Uren, Dawei Song, St...