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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Choosing the Best MT Programs for CLIR Purposes - Can MT Metrics Be Helpful?
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...
Kimmo Kettunen
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
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 queryâ€...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Visual Concepts to Improve Text-Based Image Retrieval
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...
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve
Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
Pinar Donmez, Jaime G. Carbonell