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2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Personal vs non-personal blogs: initial classification experiments
We address the task of separating personal from non-personal blogs, and report on a set of baseline experiments where we compare the performance on a small set of features across ...
Erik Elgersma, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Bag-of-visual-words expansion using visual relatedness for video indexing
Bag-of-visual-words (BoW) has been popular for visual classification in recent years. In this paper, we propose a novel BoW expansion method to alleviate the effect of visual word...
Yu-Gang Jiang, Chong-Wah Ngo
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Compressed collections for simulated crawling
Collections are a fundamental tool for reproducible evaluation of information retrieval techniques. We describe a new method for distributing the document lengths and term counts ...
Alessio Orlandi, Sebastiano Vigna
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search
We describe a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation for intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our system, two or more users with ...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pe...