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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Bayesian Mixture Hierarchies for Automatic Image Annotation
Previous research on automatic image annotation has shown that accurate estimates of the class conditional densities in generative models have a positive effect in annotation perf...
Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M. Jose
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 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 1 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval
Document retrieval systems conventionally use words as the basic unit of representation, a natural choice since words are primary carriers of semantic information. In this paper w...
Evandro B. Gouvêa, Bhiksha Raj
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 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 1 months ago
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...
Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
If I Had a Million Queries
As document collections grow larger, the information needs and relevance judgments in a test collection must be well-chosen within a limited budget to give the most reliable and ro...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Topic and Trend Detection in Text Collections Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Algorithms that enable the process of automatically mining distinct topics in document collections have become increasingly important due to their applications in many fields and ...
Levent Bolelli, Seyda Ertekin, C. Lee Giles