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CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology t...
Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
CVPR
2004
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Learning in Region-Based Image Retrieval with Generalized Support Vector Machines
Relevance feedback approaches based on support vector machine (SVM) learning have been applied to significantly improve retrieval performance in content-based image retrieval (CBI...
Iker Gondra, Douglas R. Heisterkamp