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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu
CISS
2010
IEEE
13 years 14 days ago
Unconstrained minimization of quadratic functions via min-sum
—Gaussian belief propagation is an iterative algorithm for computing the mean of a multivariate Gaussian distribution. Equivalently, the min-sum algorithm can be used to compute ...
Nicholas Ruozzi, Sekhar Tatikonda
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
ImageCLEF 2010 Modality Classification in Medical Image Retrieval: Multiple Feature Fusion with Normalized Kernel Function
Abstract. In this paper, we describe an approach for the automatic modality classification in medical image retrieval task of the 2010 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign ...
Xian-Hua Hanand Yen-Wei Chen
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Ontology-Based Functional-Knowledge Modeling Methodology and Its Deployment
Functionality is one of the key concepts in understanding an artifact and in engineering domain knowledge. Although the importance of sharing of engineering knowledge in industry h...
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro Mizoguchi