Cross language information retrieval is a field of study that has received significant research attention, resulting in systems that despite the errors of automatic translation (f...
Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, W...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the ImageCLEF Wikipedia Retrieval task for 2010. Our approach to this task was primarily to use text-based searches on th...
Resource selection is an important task in Federated Search to select a small number of most relevant information sources. Current resource selection algorithms such as GlOSS, COR...
Dzung Hong, Luo Si, Paul Bracke, Michael Witt, Tim...
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
This paper introduces a strategy for training ensemble classifiers by analysing boosting within margin theory. We present a bound on the generalisation error of ensembled classifi...
Huma Lodhi, Grigoris J. Karakoulas, John Shawe-Tay...