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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Tamil market: a spoken dialog system for rural India
In this paper, we describe the design process, results, and observations from a pilot user study for Tamil Market, a speech-driven agricultural query system, conducted in communit...
Madelaine Plauché, Madhu Prabaker
MM
2010
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Interactive visual object search through mutual information maximization
Searching for small objects (e.g., logos) in images is a critical yet challenging problem. It becomes more difficult when target objects differ significantly from the query object...
Jingjing Meng, Junsong Yuan, Yuning Jiang, Nitya N...
ACSC
2006
IEEE
16 years 12 days ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Interactive retrieval based on faceted feedback
Motivated by the commonly used faceted search interface in e-commerce, this paper investigates interactive relevance feedback mechanism based on faceted document metadata. In this...
Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Learning more powerful test statistics for click-based retrieval evaluation
Interleaving experiments are an attractive methodology for evaluating retrieval functions through implicit feedback. Designed as a blind and unbiased test for eliciting a preferen...
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, T...