Sciweavers

135 search results - page 7 / 27
» Modeling Term Associations for Ad-Hoc Retrieval Performance ...
Sort
View
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
UNIBA-SENSE @ CLEF 2009: Robust WSD Task
This paper presents the participation of the semantic N-levels search engine SENSE at the CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Robust-WSD Task. During the participation at the same task of CLEF 2008,...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...
Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai
TVCG
2008
113views more  TVCG 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A Spreadsheet Approach to Facilitate Visualization of Uncertainty in Information
Information uncertainty is inherent in many problems and is often subtle and complicated to understand. While visualization is a powerful means for exploring and understanding info...
Alexander Streit, Binh Pham, Ross Brown
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with markov chain models
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...