Improving the precision of information retrieval has been a challenging issue on Chinese Web. As exemplified by Chinese recipes on the Web, it is not easy/natural for people to us...
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...
: Relevance feedback in Content Based Image Retrieval(CBIR) has been an active field of research for quite some time now. Many schemes and techniques of relevance feedback exist w...
Spatial diversity is a relatively new branch of research in the context of spatial information retrieval. Although the assumption that spatially diversified results may meet users&...