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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Bag-of-visual-words vs global image descriptors on two-stage multimodal retrieval
The Bag-Of-Visual-Words (BOVW) paradigm is fast becoming a popular image representation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), mainly because of its better retrieval effectiven...
Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konstantinos Zagoris, ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Active learning to maximize accuracy vs. effort in interactive information retrieval
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...
Aibo Tian, Matthew Lease
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Picasso - to sing, you must close your eyes and draw
We study the problem of automatically assigning appropriate music pieces to a picture or, in general, series of pictures. This task, commonly referred to as soundtrack suggestion,...
Aleksandar Stupar, Sebastian Michel
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Collaborative competitive filtering: learning recommender using context of user choice
While a user’s preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learni...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Bo Long, Alexander J. Smola, Hon...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Mining tags using social endorsement networks
Entities on social systems, such as users on Twitter, and images on Flickr, are at the core of many interesting applications: they can be ranked in search results, recommended to ...
Theodoros Lappas, Kunal Punera, Tamás Sarlo...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Disambiguating biomedical acronyms using EMIM
Nut Limsopatham, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdo...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
How diverse are web search results?
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis