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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
An improved markov random field model for supporting verbose queries
Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...
Matthew Lease
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A geometric interpretation of r-precision and its correlation with average precision
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Exploring Syntactic Relation Patterns for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we explore the syntactic relation patterns for opendomain factoid question answering. We propose a pattern extraction method to extract the various relatio...
Dan Shen, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Dietrich Klakow
MM
2003
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Negative pseudo-relevance feedback in content-based video retrieval
Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Rong Jin
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell