SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
We consider the problem of modeling annotated data—data with multiple types where the instance of one type (such as a caption) serves as a description of the other type (such as...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Previous research in novelty detection has focused on the task of finding novel material, given a set or stream of documents on a certain topic. This study investigates the more ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
A novel Hardware Assisted Top-Doc (HAT) component is disclosed. HAT is an optimized content indexing device based on a modified inverted index structure. HAT accommodates patterns...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Recent work has demonstrated that the assessment of pairwise object similarity can be approached in an axiomatic manner using information theory. We extend this concept specifica...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...