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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Computing Term Translation Probabilities with Generalized Latent Semantic Analysis
Term translation probabilities proved an effective method of semantic smoothing in the language modelling approach to information retrieval. We use Generalized Latent Semantic Ana...
Irina Matveeva, Gina-Anne Levow
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Exploring social annotations for information retrieval
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...
Ding Zhou, Jiang Bian, Shuyi Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, ...
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
142views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, Dietrich Klakow
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CIVR
2004
Springer
111views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
14 years 28 days ago
An Inference Network Approach to Image Retrieval
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
Donald Metzler, R. Manmatha