This paper addresses the desktop search problem by considering various techniques for ranking results of a search query over the file system. First, basic ranking techniques, whic...
Forty-eight years ago Maron and Kuhns published their paper, ``On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval" (1960). This was the first paper to present a p...
In this paper the methods we used in the 2005 ImageCLEF content-based image retrieval evaluation are described. For the medical retrieval task, we combined several low-level image ...
Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Daniel Keysers, W...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
Abstract. A mismatch between differenteventspaceshasbeen used toargue against rank equivalence of classic probabilistic models of information retrieval and language models. We ques...