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TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
University of North Carolina's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
Diane Kelly, Vijay Deepak Dollu, Xin Fu
GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Should SDBMS support a join index?: a case study from CrimeStat
Given a spatial crime data warehouse, that is updated infrequently and a set of operations O as well as constraints of storage and update overheads, the index type selection probl...
Pradeep Mohan, Ronald E. Wilson, Shashi Shekhar, B...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu
MM
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Effective automatic image annotation via a coherent language model and active learning
Image annotations allow users to access a large image database with textual queries. There have been several studies on automatic image annotation utilizing machine learning techn...
Rong Jin, Joyce Y. Chai, Luo Si
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan