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TREC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Combining Candidate and Document Models for Expert Search
: 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...
Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
SPIESR
2004
118views Database» more  SPIESR 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
New method for visual descriptor evaluation
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...
Horst Eidenberger
ALDT
2011
Springer
262views Algorithms» more  ALDT 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Learning Complex Concepts Using Crowdsourcing: A Bayesian Approach
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...
ICADL
2003
Springer
83views Education» more  ICADL 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Supporting Multilingual Information Retrieval in Web Applications: An English-Chinese Web Portal Experiment
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
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Context-sensitive query auto-completion
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...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Naama Kraus