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ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Explaining User Performance in Information Retrieval: Challenges to IR Evaluation
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
Kalervo Järvelin
TOG
2012
280views Communications» more  TOG 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
What makes Paris look like Paris?
Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain g...
Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised linear score normalization revisited
We give a fresh look into score normalization for merging result-lists, isolating the problem from other components. We focus on three of the simplest, practical, and widelyused l...
Ilya Markov, Avi Arampatzis, Fabio Crestani
SAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic extraction of informative blocks from webpages
Search engines crawl and index webpages depending upon their informative content. However, webpages — especially dynamically generated ones — contain items that cannot be clas...
Sandip Debnath, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
CORR
2011
Springer
165views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
From IF to BI: a tale of dependence and separation
We take a fresh look at the logics of informational dependence and independence of Hintikka and Sandu and V¨a¨an¨anen, and their compositional semantics due to Hodges. We show h...
Samson Abramsky, Jouko A. Väänänen