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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
MMM
2012
Springer
283views Multimedia» more  MMM 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
A Novel Multi-modal Integration and Propagation Model for Cross-Media Information Retrieval
In this paper, we present a novel PLSA-based aspect model and turn cross-media retrieval into two parts of multi-modal integration and correlation propagation. We first use multiva...
Wanxia Lin, Tong Lu, Feng Su
CORR
2010
Springer
141views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
A database approach to information retrieval: The remarkable relationship between language models and region models
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Vojkan Mihajlovic
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
TREC
1998
13 years 9 months ago
BBN at TREC7: Using Hidden Markov Models for Information Retrieval
We present a new method for information retrieval using hidden Markov models HMMs and relate our experience with this system on the TREC-7 ad hoc task. We develop a general framew...
David R. H. Miller, Tim Leek, Richard M. Schwartz