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CAIP
2009
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Performance Prediction for Unsupervised Video Indexing
Recently, performance prediction has been successfully applied in the field of information retrieval for content analysis and retrieval tasks. This paper discusses how performance ...
Ralph Ewerth, Bernd Freisleben
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection
Modern techniques for distributed information retrieval use a set of documents sampled from each server, but these samples have been underutilised in server selection. We describe...
Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...
Shaorong Liu, Qinghua Zou, Wesley W. Chu
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz