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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Iterative translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval
Finding a proper distribution of translation probabilities is one of the most important factors impacting the effectiveness of a crosslanguage information retrieval system. In th...
Christof Monz, Bonnie J. Dorr
DEXA
1997
Springer
137views Database» more  DEXA 1997»
14 years 1 months ago
A Retrieval Mechanism for Semi-Structured Photographic Collections
Abstract. In this paper, a new approach for retrieval from semistructured photographic collections is described. We have developed a retrieval model based on the Dempster-Shafer th...
Joemon M. Jose, David J. Harper
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
ADCS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
On the Effectiveness of Relevance Profiling
Relevance profiling is a general process for withindocument retrieval. Given a query, a profile of retrieval status values is computed by sliding a fixed sized window across a doc...
David J. Harper, David Lee
SDB
1995
178views Database» more  SDB 1995»
14 years 16 days ago
A Semantics-based Approach to Design of Query Languages for Partial Information
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
Leonid Libkin