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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell
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
Forming test collections with no system pooling
Forming test collection relevance judgments from the pooled output of multiple retrieval systems has become the standard process for creating resources such as the TREC, CLEF, and...
Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho
ISMIR
2005
Springer
169views Music» more  ISMIR 2005»
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A Survey of Music Information Retrieval Systems
This survey paper provides an overview of content-based music information retrieval systems, both for audio and for symbolic music notation. Matching algorithms and indexing metho...
Rainer Typke, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp
ISMIR
2005
Springer
139views Music» more  ISMIR 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Classifier Combination for Capturing Musical Variation
At its heart, music information retrieval is characterized by the need to find the similarity between pieces of music. However, “similar” does not mean “the same”. Theref...
Jeremy Pickens
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Use of MedGIFT and EasyIR for ImageCLEF 2005
This article describes the use of the medGIFT and easyIR retrieval systems for three of the four ImageCLEF 2005 retrieval tasks. We participated in the ad–hoc retrieval task that...
Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Joh...
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Implicit user modeling for personalized search
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Xuehua Shen, Bin Tan, ChengXiang Zhai
AMR
2005
Springer
128views Multimedia» more  AMR 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Ranking Invariance Based on Similarity Measures in Document Retrieval
Abstract. To automatically retrieve documents or images from a database, retrieval systems use similarity measures to compare a request based on features extracted from the documen...
Jean-François Omhover, Maria Rifqi, Marcin ...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
121views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Sampling Strategies for Active Learning in Personal Photo Retrieval
With the advent and proliferation of digital cameras and computers, the number of digital photos created and stored by consumers has grown extremely large. This created increasing...
Yi Wu, Igor Kozintsev, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Carole D...
KES
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
NBM and WNBM: Algorithms and Evaluation for Personalizing Information Retrieval in METIORE
The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted a...
David Bueno, Ricardo Conejo, Amos David, Cristina ...