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SMC
2010
IEEE
124views Control Systems» more  SMC 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
SoftFacts: A top-k retrieval engine for ontology mediated access to relational databases
—We outline SoftFacts, an ontology mediated top-k information retrieval system over relational databases. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a OWL-QL like Semantic...
Umberto Straccia
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Cross-lingual relevance models
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Clarity re-visited
We present a novel interpretation of Clarity [5], a widely used query performance predictor. While Clarity is commonly described as a measure of the “distance” between the lan...
Shay Hummel, Anna Shtok, Fiana Raiber, Oren Kurlan...
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DASFAA
2008
IEEE
106views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Flood Little, Cache More: Effective Result-Reuse in P2P IR Systems
State-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2P IR) systems suffer from their lack of response time guarantee especially with scale. To address this issue, a number of tec...
Christian Zimmer, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Gerhard We...
MM
2005
ACM
164views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
16 years 14 days ago
Automatic discovery of query-class-dependent models for multimodal search
We develop a framework for the automatic discovery of query classes for query-class-dependent search models in multimodal retrieval. The framework automatically discovers useful q...
Lyndon S. Kennedy, Apostol Natsev, Shih-Fu Chang