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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Ian Ruthven
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The MIND Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Federated Digital Libraries
Abstract. In this paper we describe the architecture of the MIND system for federating multimedia digital libraries. MIND integrates heterogeneous, multimedia non-co-operating digi...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Decision-Theoretic Resource Selection for Different Data Types in MIND
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
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
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Fuzzy translation of cross-lingual spelling variants
We will present a novel two-step fuzzy translation technique for cross-lingual spelling variants. In the first stage, transformation rules are applied to source words to render th...
Ari Pirkola, Jarmo Toivonen, Heikki Keskustalo, Ka...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Table extraction using conditional random fields
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of data mining, question answering, and other information retrieval tasks. Documents often c...
David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce C...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Building and applying a concept hierarchy representation of a user profile
Nikolaos Nanas, Victoria S. Uren, Anne N. De Roeck
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical visual feature indexes in video retrieval
Four statistical visual feature indexes are proposed: SLM (Shot Length Mean), the average length of each shot in a video; SLD (Shot Length Deviation), the standard deviation of sh...
Xiangming Mu, Gary Marchionini