In the area of image retrieval, post-retrieval processing is often used to refine the retrieval results to better satisfy users’ requirements. Previous methods mainly focus on p...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Robust and Web tracks. For the Robust track, we experimented with the impact of stemming and feedback on the worst scoring topics. ...
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, B&oum...
Data fusion has been investigated by many researchers in the information retrieval community and has become an effective technique for improving retrieval effectiveness. In this p...
Directed graphical models with one layer of observed random variables and one or more layers of hidden random variables have been the dominant modelling paradigm in many research ...
This paper studies global ranking problem by learning to rank methods. Conventional learning to rank methods are usually designed for `local ranking', in the sense that the r...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...