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DASFAA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
A Revisit of Query Expansion with Different Semantic Levels
Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
Ce Zhang, Bin Cui, Gao Cong, Yu-Jing Wang
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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Book search: indexing the valuable parts
With massive book digitization efforts underway, there is a need for developing effective book retrieval strategies. This paper explores the relative contribution of different par...
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Query Performance Prediction: Evaluation Contrasted with Effectiveness
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra, Fr...
MM
2010
ACM
199views Multimedia» more  MM 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
TOP-SURF: a visual words toolkit
TOP-SURF is an image descriptor that combines interest points with visual words, resulting in a high performance yet compact descriptor that is designed with a wide range of conte...
Bart Thomee, Erwin M. Bakker, Michael S. Lew
JASIS
2006
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15 years 7 months ago
Building a reusable test collection for question answering
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz