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MMM
2011
Springer
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Randomly Projected KD-Trees with Distance Metric Learning for Image Retrieval
Abstract. Efficient nearest neighbor (NN) search techniques for highdimensional data are crucial to content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Traditional data structures (e.g., kd-tree...
Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Duc Dung Nguyen, Y...
MSV
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Quality of Service Based Resource Management for Cluster-Based Image Database
The main research in the area of image databases addresses the improvement of retrieval quality and the speedup of the query processing. A number of image retrieval systems reache...
Andreas Brüning, Frank Drews, Martin Hoefer, ...
ECIR
2003
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
From Uncertain Inference to Probability of Relevance for Advanced IR Applications
Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
GVD
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Conflation Methods and Spelling Mistakes - A Sensitivity Analysis in Information Retrieval
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
Philipp Dopichaj, Theo Härder
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...
Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Decision-Theoretic Model for Decentralised Query Routing in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks
Abstract. Efficient and effective routing of content-based queries is an emerging problem in peer-to-peer networks, and can be seen as an extension of the traditional “resource ...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems
The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Zhichen Xu