SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We study in this paper the problem of bridging the semantic gap between low-level image features and high-level semantic concepts, which is the key hindrance in content-based imag...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Over the years, the notion of concept relatedness has attracted considerable attention. A variety of approaches, based on ontology structure, information content, association, or ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Information retrieval evaluation has typically been performed over several dozen queries, each judged to near-completeness. There has been a great deal of recent work on evaluatio...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Collaborative Filtering (CF) requires user-rated training examples for statistical inference about the preferences of new users. Active learning strategies identify the most infor...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Relevance feedback, which traditionally uses the terms in the relevant documents to enrich the user's initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performanc...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM