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1992
ACM
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An Information-Retrieval Approach for Image Databases
The retrieval process in image database systems is inherently different from the retrieval processin traditional (recordoriented)databasesystems.While thelatter canbe consideredan...
Fausto Rabitti, Pasquale Savino
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Human performance and retrieval precision revisited
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Query Difficulty Prediction for Contextual Image Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
Xing Xing, Yi Zhang 0001, Mei Han
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ECIR
2008
Springer
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The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
DELOS
2001
15 years 8 months ago
Relevance Feedback for Best Match Term Weighting Algorithms in Information Retrieval
Personalisation in full text retrieval or full text filtering implies reweighting of the query terms based on some explicit or implicit feedback from the user. Relevance feedback i...
Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson