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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
A Personalized Retrieval Model based on Influence Diagrams
Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
Nesrine Zemirli, Lynda Tamine, Mohand Boughanem
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Empirical justification of the gain and discount function for nDCG
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
AUSDM
2008
Springer
243views Data Mining» more  AUSDM 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Structure-Based Document Model with Discrete Wavelet Transforms and Its Application to Document Classification
Term signal is an existing text representation that depicts a term as a vector of frequencies of occurrences in a number of user-defined partitions of a document. Although term si...
Supphachai Thaicharoen, Tom Altman, Krzysztof J. C...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A system for finding biological entities that satisfy certain conditions from texts
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
Wei Zhou, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng