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CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A General Language Model for Information Retrieval
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Performance and Implications of Semantic Indexing in a Distributed Environment
A research prototype is presented for semantic indexing and retrieval in Information Retrieval. The prototype is motivated by a desire to provide a more efficient and effective in...
Conrad T. K. Chang, Bruce R. Schatz
CLEF
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...
Bärbel Ripplinger
CIKM
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Webspace Method: On the Integration of Database Technology with Multimedia Retrieval
Large collections of documents containing various types of multimedia, are made available to the WWW. Unfortunately, due to the un-structuredness of Internet environments it is ha...
Roelof van Zwol, Peter M. G. Apers
AH
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Case-Based User Profiling for Content Personalisation
As it stands the Internet’s “one size fits all” approach to information retrieval presents the average user with a serious information overload problem. Adaptive hypermedia s...
Keith Bradley, Rachael Rafter, Barry Smyth
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
On the design and evaluation of a multi-dimensional approach to information retrieval
We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
IUI
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using annotated video as an information retrieval interface
The ability to deliver appropriate information to learners at the most appropriate time is an essential component of good instruction. In the best learning environments, this info...
Andrew S. Gordon
IUI
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Enhancing information retrieval by automatic acquisition of textual relations using genetic programming
We have explored a novel method to find textual relations in electronic documents using genetic programming and semantic networks. This can be used for enhancing information retri...
Agneta Bergström, Patricija Jaksetic, Peter N...
IRAL
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
On the use of words and n-grams for Chinese information retrieval
: In the processing of Chinese documents and queries in information retrieval (IR), one has to identify the units that are used as indexes. Words and n-grams have been used as inde...
Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Jian Zhang, Ming Zhou