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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Relationships in Multi-modal Graphs for Automatic Image Annotation
It is important to integrate contextual information in order to improve the inaccurate results of current approaches for automatic image annotation. Graph based representations all...
Vassilios Stathopoulos, Jana Urban, Joemon M. Jose
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Expert Search Evaluation by Supporting Documents
An expert search system assists users with their "expertise need" by suggesting people with relevant expertise to their query. Most systems work by ranking documents in r...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Documents as Mixtures of Persons for Expert Finding
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a proba...
Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space
Word space models, in the sense of vector space models built on distributional data taken from texts, are used to model semantic relations between words. We argue that the high dim...
Jussi Karlgren, Anders Holst, Magnus Sahlgren
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Utilizing Passage-Based Language Models for Document Retrieval
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu