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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
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TRECVID
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Knowledge Base Retrieval at TRECVID 2008
This paper describes the Knowledge Base multimedia retrieval system for the TRECVID 2008 evaluation. Our focus this year is on query analysis and the creation of a topic knowledge...
David Etter
113
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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia
This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of b...
David N. Milne, Ian H. Witten, David M. Nichols
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
GeoCLEF 2007: The CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic ...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Cross-lingual relevance models
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft