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CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Lower-bounding term frequency normalization
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Building a web thesaurus from web link structure
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...
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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Clarity re-visited
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
MM
2005
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Learning the semantics of multimedia queries and concepts from a small number of examples
In this paper we unify two supposedly distinct tasks in multimedia retrieval. One task involves answering queries with a few examples. The other involves learning models for seman...
Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, Jelena Tesic