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IPM
2008
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An Historical Note on the Origins of Probabilistic Indexing
The motivation behind ``Probabilistic Indexing'' was to replace two-valued thinking about information retrieval with probabilistic notions. This involved a new view of t...
M. E. Maron
IPM
2006
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A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
IPM
2006
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An implicit feedback approach for interactive information retrieval
Searchers can face problems finding the information they seek. One reason for this is that they may have difficulty devising queries to express their information needs. In this ar...
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven
IPM
2006
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Using searcher simulations to redesign a polyrepresentative implicit feedback interface
Information seeking is traditionally conducted in environments where search results are represented at the user interface by a minimal amount of meta-information such as titles an...
Ryen W. White
IPM
2006
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Combining preference- and content-based approaches for improving document clustering effectiveness
E-commerce and knowledge management applications generate and consume tremendous amounts of online information that is typically available as textual documents. To facilitate subs...
Chih-Ping Wei, Chin-Sheng Yang, Han-Wei Hsiao, Tsa...
IPM
2006
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Elicitation and use of relevance feedback information
Olga Vechtomova, Murat Karamuftuoglu
IPM
2006
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Qualitative evaluation of automatic assignment of keywords to images
In image retrieval, most systems lack user-centred evaluation since they are assessed by some chosen ground truth dataset. The results reported through precision and recall assess...
Chih-Fong Tsai, Kenneth McGarry, John Tait
IPM
2006
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Effective search results summary size and device screen size: Is there a relationship?
In recent years, small screen devices have seen widespread increase in their acceptance and use. Combining mobility with increased technological advances many such devices can now...
Simon O. Sweeney, Fabio Crestani