Many traditional information retrieval models, such as BM25 and language modeling, give good retrieval effectiveness, but can be difficult to implement efficiently. Recently, docum...
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
This paper presents Wolverhampton University's participation in the WiQA competition. The method chosen for this task combines a high precision, but low recall information re...
In this demonstration, we present an image retrieval system to support multimedia authoring and presentation. An affinity-based mechanism, Markov Model Mediator (MMM), is used as ...
Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Na Zhao, Chengcui Z...