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OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Ontology-Based Spatial Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to enhance th...
Gaihua Fu, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Search-Based Automatic Image Annotation via Flickr Photos Using Tag Expansion
Exponentially growing photo collections motivate the needs for automatic image annotation for effective manipulations (e.g., search, browsing). Most of the prior works rely on sup...
Liang-Chi Hsieh, Winston H. Hsu
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Generating query substitutions
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information retrieval
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Hao Yang, Xing Wei