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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Studying Query Expansion Effectiveness
Query expansion is an effective technique in improving the retrieval performance for ad-hoc retrieval. However, query expansion can also fail, leading to a degradation of the retri...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
ICMCS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Data Modeling Strategies for Imbalanced Learning in Visual Search
In this paper we examine a novel approach to the difficult problem of querying video databases using visual topics with few examples. Typically with visual topics, the examples a...
Jelena Tesic, Apostol Natsev, Lexing Xie, John R. ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling hidden topics on document manifold
Topic modeling has been a key problem for document analysis. One of the canonical approaches for topic modeling is Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing, which maximizes the join...
Deng Cai, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai