We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Query-to-concept mapping plays one of the keys to concept-based video retrieval. Conventional approaches try to find concepts that are likely to co-occur in the relevant shots fro...
Juan Cao, HongFang Jing, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yongdong Z...
In this paper we study the topic of CBR systems learning from observations in which those observations can be represented as stochastic policies. We describe a general framework wh...
Kellen Gillespie, Justin Karneeb, Stephen Lee-Urba...
Abstract. Relevance feedback, which uses the terms in relevant documents to enrich the user’s initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performance. An assoc...
In order to evaluate the performance of information retrieval and extraction algorithms, we need test collections. A test collection consists of a set of documents, a clearly form...