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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The web retrieval task and its evaluation in the third NTCIR workshop
This paper gives an overview of the evaluation method used for the Web Retrieval Task in the Third NTCIR Workshop, which is currently in progress. In the Web Retrieval Task, we tr...
Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Kazuko Kuriy...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Query Difficulty Prediction for Contextual Image Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
Xing Xing, Yi Zhang 0001, Mei Han
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Generating diverse katakana variants based on phonemic mapping
In Japanese, it is quite common for the same word to be written in several different ways. This is especially true for katakana words which are typically used for transliterating ...
Kazuhiro Seki, Hiroyuki Hattori, Kuniaki Uehara
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Ian Ruthven