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AMR
2006
Springer
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Learning to Retrieve Images from Text Queries with a Discriminative Model
This work presents a discriminative model for the retrieval of pictures from text queries. The core idea of this approach is to minimize a loss directly related to the retrieval pe...
David Grangier, Florent Monay, Samy Bengio
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
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A Revisit of Query Expansion with Different Semantic Levels
Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
Ce Zhang, Bin Cui, Gao Cong, Yu-Jing Wang
SIGIR
2000
ACM
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The impact of database selection on distributed searching
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...
IWVF
2001
Springer
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Color and Shape Index for Region-Based Image Retrieval
Abstract. Most CBIR systems use low-level visual features for representation and retrieval of images. Generally such methods suffer from the problems of high-dimensionality leadin...
B. G. Prasad, S. K. Gupta, K. K. Biswas
FQAS
2009
Springer
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On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query - An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Mont...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval
Motivated by the hypothesis that the retrieval performance of a weighting model is independent of the language in which queries and collection are expressed, we compared the retrie...
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting query history for document ranking in interactive information retrieval
In this poster,we incorporate user query history, as context information, to improve the retrieval performance in interactive retrieval. Experiments using the TREC data show that ...
Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Query Expansion and Query Reduction in Document Retrieval
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti, Yingying Wen
INEX
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Utrecht Blend: Basic Ingredients for an XML Retrieval System
Exploiting the structure of a document allows for more powerful information retrieval techniques. In this article a basic approach is discussed for the retrieval of XML document f...
Roelof van Zwol, Frans Wiering, Virginia Dignum
AUSAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Analyzing the Effect of Query Class on Document Retrieval Performance
Abstract. Analysis of queries posed to open-domain question-answering systems indicates that particular types of queries are dominant, e.g., queries about the identity of people, a...
Pawel Kowalczyk, Ingrid Zukerman, Michael Niemann