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CIKM
2007
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Combining resources with confidence measures for cross language information retrieval
Query translation in Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) can be performed using multiple resources. Previous attempts to combine different translation resources use simple...
Youssef Kadri, Jian-Yun Nie
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
SIGIR
2005
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Iterative translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval
Finding a proper distribution of translation probabilities is one of the most important factors impacting the effectiveness of a crosslanguage information retrieval system. In th...
Christof Monz, Bonnie J. Dorr
ECIR
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Independence of Contributing Retrieval Strategies in Data Fusion for Effective Information Retrieval
: In information retrieval, data fusion is a technique for combining the outputs of more than one retrieval strategy which rank documents for retrieval. One of the observations oft...
Alan F. Smeaton
ML
2000
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Maximizing Theory Accuracy Through Selective Reinterpretation
Existing methods for exploiting awed domain theories depend on the use of a su ciently large set of training examples for diagnosing and repairing aws in the theory. In this paper,...
Shlomo Argamon-Engelson, Moshe Koppel, Hillel Walt...