Abstract: Multimedia databases are increasingly common in science, business, entertainment and many other applications. Their size and high dimensionality of features are major cha...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
Searchers can face problems finding the information they seek. One reason for this is that they may have difficulty devising queries to express their information needs. In this ar...
The effective management of digital rights is a crucial challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present an economic model that cha...
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...