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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning from past queries for resource selection
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
Suleyman Cetintas, Luo Si, Hao Yuan
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, Sirvan Yahyaei
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Query Difficulty Prediction for Contextual Image Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
Xing Xing, Yi Zhang 0001, Mei Han
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Content-Based Retrieval for Music Collections
A content-based retrieval model for tackling the mismatch problems specific to music data is proposed and implemented. The system uses a pitch profile encoding for queries in any ...
Yuen-Hsien Tseng
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Scalability of findability: effective and efficient IR operations in large information networks
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
Weimao Ke, Javed Mostafa