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ICCV
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Graph-Cut Transducers for Relevance Feedback in Content Based Image Retrieval
Closing the semantic gap in content based image retrieval (CBIR) basically requires the knowledge of the user's intention which is usually translated into a sequence of quest...
Hichem Sahbi, Jean-Yves Audibert, Renaud Keriven
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
AIRS
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
A Bootstrapping Approach for Geographic Named Entity Annotation
Abstract. Geographic named entities can be classified into many subtypes that are useful for applications such as information extraction and question answering. In this paper, we ...
Seungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: a study in the domain of clinical medicine
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman
ISDA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Combined Query Expansion Technique for Retrieving Opinions from Blogs
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Stefan Kazalski, Dietrich Klakow