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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
14 years 2 months ago
Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
Björn Þór Jónsson, Michae...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing
This paper introduces a new approach to add fault-tolerance to a fulltext retrieval system. The weighted pattern morphing technique circumvents some of the disadvantages of the wid...
Wolfram M. Esser
NGC
2000
Springer
101views Communications» more  NGC 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Information Access in Multimedia Databases Based on Feature Models
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
ICADL
2003
Springer
145views Education» more  ICADL 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Web Mining of Query Translations for Cross-Language Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries
This paper proposes an efficient client-server-based query translation approach to allowing more feasible implementation of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) services in ...
Wen-Hsiang Lu, Jenq-Haur Wang, Lee-Feng Chien