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MIR
2004
ACM
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15 years 12 months ago
Mean version space: a new active learning method for content-based image retrieval
In content-based image retrieval, relevance feedback has been introduced to narrow the gap between low-level image feature and high-level semantic concept. Furthermore, to speed u...
Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong, Mingjing Li, HongJiang ...
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...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An uncertainty-aware query selection model for evaluation of IR systems
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Retrievability of Patents in Prior-Art Search
Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber