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CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 15 days ago
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Learning to Rank Online
Abstract. As retrieval systems become more complex, learning to rank approaches are being developed to automatically tune their parameters. Using online learning to rank approaches...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
INEX
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using Wikipedia Categories and Links in Entity Ranking
This paper describes the participation of the INRIA group in the INEX 2007 XML entity ranking and ad hoc tracks. We developed a system for ranking Wikipedia entities in answer to a...
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Jovan Pehcevski, James A. T...
CVPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Boosting Image Retrieval
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...
Kinh Tieu, Paul A. Viola
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Comparing and Combining Methods for Automatic Query Expansion
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...
José R. Pérez-Agüera, Lourdes A...