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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Combining resources with confidence measures for cross language information retrieval
Query translation in Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) can be performed using multiple resources. Previous attempts to combine different translation resources use simple...
Youssef Kadri, Jian-Yun Nie
ICADL
2003
Springer
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14 years 2 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
IR
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
ISWC
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Personal Position Measurement Using Dead Reckoning
This paper compares position measurement techniques using dead reckoning. We are seeking to find a technique which is suitable for use by pedestrians, and have compared a number ...
Cliff Randell, Chris Djiallis, Henk L. Muller