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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty
Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
Jiyin He, Martha Larson, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Query Difficulty Prediction for Contextual Image Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
Xing Xing, Yi Zhang 0001, Mei Han
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...