Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
Abstract. This paper describes usage of MT metrics in choosing the best candidates for MT-based query translation resources. Our main metrics is METEOR, but we also use NIST and BL...
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the query...
In this paper, we study how to automatically exploit visual concepts in a text-based image retrieval task. First, we use Forest of Fuzzy Decision Trees (FFDTs) to automatically ann...
Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Christophe Mar...
We describe two user studies that investigate organization strategies of autocompletion in a known-item search task: searching for terms taken from a thesaurus. In Study 1, we expl...
Alia Amin, Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbrug...