We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...
Radiologists disagree with each other over the characteristics and features of what constitutes a normal mammogram and the terminology to use in the associated radiology report. R...
Robert M. Patton, Thomas E. Potok, Barbara G. Beck...
Query reformulation has been suggested as an effective way to improve retrieval efficiency in text information retrieval and one of the well-known techniques for query reformulati...
In this paper we predict the relevance of images based on a lowdimensional feature space found using several users’ eye movements. Each user is given an image-based search task,...
Zakria Hussain, Kitsuchart Pasupa, John Shawe-Tayl...
An online software agent that helps smokers quit was designed and tested. We created a library of categorized smoking cessation messages using meta-data corresponding to the Stage...