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ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Active Learning-Based Elicitation for Semi-Supervised Word Alignment
Semi-supervised word alignment aims to improve the accuracy of automatic word alignment by incorporating full or partial manual alignments. Motivated by standard active learning q...
Vamshi Ambati, Stephan Vogel, Jaime G. Carbonell
CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
In this paper we propose several merging strategies to integrate the result lists of each intermediate run in distributed MLIR. The prediction of retrieval effectiveness was used t...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline in CLEF 2003
We evaluate the feasibility of applying currently available research tools to the problem of cross lingual QA. We establish a task baseline by combining a cross lingual IR system w...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica Rogati, Jaime G. Carbonel...
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Exploiting site-level information to improve web search
Ranking Web search results has long evolved beyond simple bag-of-words retrieval models. Modern search engines routinely employ machine learning ranking that relies on exogenous r...
Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josif...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 27 days ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...