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MM
2000
ACM
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Giving meanings to WWW images
Images are increasingly being embedded in HTML documents on the WWW. Such documents over the WWW essentially provides a rich source of image collection from which users can query....
Heng Tao Shen, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan
CIKM
2001
Springer
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Approaches to Collection Selection and Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Yves Rasolofo, Faiza Abbaci, Jacques Savoy
JCDL
2010
ACM
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Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
CLEF
2003
Springer
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Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
In this paper we propose several merging strategies to integrate the result lists of each intermediate run in distributed MLIR. The prediction of retrieval effectiveness was used t...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
CIKM
2003
Springer
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Addressing the lack of direct translation resources for cross-language retrieval
Most cross language information retrieval research concentrates on language pairs for which direct, rich, and often multiple translation resources already exist. However, for most...
Lisa Ballesteros, Mark Sanderson
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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The Effect of Bilingual Term List Size on Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Bilingual term lists are extensively used as a resource for dictionary-based Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), in which the goal is to find documents written in one na...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2004
ACM
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Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft
CLEF
2007
Springer
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Domain-Specific IR for German, English and Russian Languages
In participating in this CLEF evaluation campaign, our first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Russian language, in order to obta...
Claire Fautsch, Ljiljana Dolamic, Samir Abdou, Jac...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The effect of negation on sentiment analysis and retrieval effectiveness
We investigate the problem of determining the polarity of sentiments when one or more occurrences of a negation term such as “not” appear in a sentence. The concept of the sco...
Lifeng Jia, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng