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SIGIR
2004
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval
Applying Belief Revision logic to model adaptive information retrieval is appealing since it provides a rigorous theoretical foundation to model partiality and uncertainty inheren...
Raymond Y. K. Lau, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song
ICIW
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Context-aware Web Services for Distributed Retrieval of Points of Interest
Due to the widespread availability of accurate localization technologies, navigation systems are more and more present on mobile devices. These applications usually provide facili...
Claudio Bettini, Daniele Riboni
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
MM
2003
ACM
143views Multimedia» more  MM 2003»
16 years 4 hour ago
Approximate matching algorithms for music information retrieval using vocal input
Effective use of multimedia collections requires efficient and intuitive methods of searching and browsing. This work considers databases which store music and explores how these...
Richard L. Kline, Ephraim P. Glinert
ICADL
2003
Springer
145views Education» more  ICADL 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
Towards Web Mining of Query Translations for Cross-Language Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries
This paper proposes an efficient client-server-based query translation approach to allowing more feasible implementation of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) services in ...
Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jenq-Haur Wang, Lee-Feng Chien