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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 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
CIVR
2004
Springer
111views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
An Inference Network Approach to Image Retrieval
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
Donald Metzler, R. Manmatha
ICDE
2004
IEEE
137views Database» more  ICDE 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for XML Twigs
Twig queries represent the building blocks of declarative query languages over XML data. A twig query describes a complex traversal of the document graph and generates a set of el...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
CASCON
2001
148views Education» more  CASCON 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
A Pareto model for OLAP view size estimation
On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) aims at gaining useful information quickly from large amounts of data residing in a data warehouse. To improve the quickness of response to qu...
Thomas P. Nadeau, Toby J. Teorey
ECIR
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Information Retrieval with Information Extraction for Efficient Retrieval of Calls for Papers
In many domains there are specific attributes in documents that carry more weight than the general words in the document. This paper proposes the use of information extraction tec...
F. Lazarinis