Most users of machine-learning products are reluctant to use the systems without any sense of the underlying logic that has led to the system's predictions. Unfortunately many...
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...
This paper presents a system for video shot retrieval in which shots are retrieved based on matching video objects using a combination of colour, shape and texture. Rather than mat...
Sorin Sav, Hyowon Lee, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O'...
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...