Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgment information. Buckley and Voorhees recently demonstrated that retrieval systems can be efficiently...
Abstract. This paper presents a statistical framework based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for discovering the contextual factors which most strongly influence user behavio...
Abstract. Evaluation is one of the hardest tasks in automatic text summarization. It is perhaps even harder to determine how much a particular component of a summarization system c...
A great deal of recent research has focused on the challenging task of selecting differentially expressed genes from microarray data (`gene selection'). Numerous gene selecti...