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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical query expansion for sentence retrieval and its effects on weak and strong queries
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
David E. Losada
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Multimedia with a speech track: searching spontaneous conversational speech
After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 20...
Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
PAKDD
2009
ACM
263views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Spatial Weighting for Bag-of-Visual-Words and Its Application in Content-Based Image Retrieval
It is a challenging and important task to retrieve images from a large and highly varied image data set based on their visual contents. Problems like how to fill the semantic gap b...
Xin Chen, Xiaohua Hu, Xiajiong Shen