The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...
Spatial language video retrieval is an important real-world problem that is also a natural test bed for evaluating semantic structures for natural language descriptions of motion ...
We describe a new method for query completion for Bollywood song search without using query logs. Since song titles in nonEnglish languages (Hindi in our case) are mostly present ...
Taking advantage of the well-known cluster hypothesis that “closely associated documents tend to be relevant to the same request”, we can use inter-document similarity to prov...