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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion
In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. ...
Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most popular information sources on the Web. The free encyclopedia is densely linked. The link structure in Wikipedia differs from the Web at large: interna...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Here or There
Abstract. Information retrieval systems have traditionally been evaluated over absolute judgments of relevance: each document is judged for relevance on its own, independent of oth...
Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chi...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations
Abstract. Clickthrough data has been the subject of increasing popularity as an implicit indicator of user feedback. Previous analysis has suggested that user click behaviour is su...
Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, And...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth
Using map visualisation tools and earth browsers to display images in a spatial context is integral to many photo-sharing sites and commercial image archives, yet little academic r...
Paul Clough, Simon Read
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining
Abstract. This paper presents first steps towards building a music information system like last.fm, but with the major difference that the data is automatically retrieved from the ...
Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Wid...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model
This paper introduces CL-ESA, a new multilingual retrieval model for the analysis of cross-language similarity. The retrieval model exploits the multilingual alignment of Wikipedia...
Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Maik Anderka