: We describe our participation in the TREC 2008 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on query expansion using pro...
Evaluation in visual information retrieval is usually performed by executing test queries and calculating recall and precision based on predefined media collections and ground tru...
Abstract. We develop a Bayesian approach to concept learning for crowdsourcing applications. A probabilistic belief over possible concept definitions is maintained and updated acc...
Paolo Viappiani, Sandra Zilles, Howard J. Hamilton...
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) techniques have been widely studied, but they are not often applied to and evaluated for W...
Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen
Query auto completion is known to provide poor predictions of the user’s query when her input prefix is very short (e.g., one or two characters). In this paper we show that con...