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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
Xing Yi, James Allan
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...
Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
"They Are Out There, If You Know Where to Look": Mining Transliterations of OOV Query Terms for Cross-Language Information Retri
It is well known that the use of a good Machine Transliteration system improves the retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems when the query and ...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, Anton Bakalov, Ab...
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
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
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