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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho
IR
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence in topic distillation
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
Vassilis Plachouras, Fidel Cacheda, Iadh Ounis
BMCBI
2008
116views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
MScanner: a classifier for retrieving Medline citations
Background: Keyword searching through PubMed and other systems is the standard means of retrieving information from Medline. However, ad-hoc retrieval systems do not meet all of t...
Graham L. Poulter, Daniel L. Rubin, Russ B. Altman...
WSDM
2010
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Improving Quality of Training Data for Learning to Rank Using Click-Through Data
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
ICIP
2007
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Determining Topology in a Distributed Camera Network
Recently, `entry/exit' events of objects in the field-of-views of cameras were used to learn the topology of the camera network. The integration of object appearance was also...
Xiaotao Zou, Bir Bhanu, Bi Song, Amit K. Roy Chowd...