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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Has portfolio theory got any principles?
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
ECIR
2003
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
From Uncertain Inference to Probability of Relevance for Advanced IR Applications
Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra
CEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Parallel BMDA with an aggregation of probability models
—The paper is focused on the problem of aggregation of probability distribution applicable for parallel Bivariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm (pBMDA). A new approach based on...
Jirí Jaros, Josef Schwarz
ICMCS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 12 months ago
A Probability Model for Image Annotation
Automatic image annotation is a promising solution to enable more effective image retrieval by keywords. Traditionally, statistical models for image auto-annotation predicate each...
Yong Ge, Richang Hong, Zhiwei Gu, Rong Zhang, Xiuq...