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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Predicting and improving the protein sequence alignment quality by support vector regression
Background: For successful protein structure prediction by comparative modeling, in addition to identifying a good template protein with known structure, obtaining an accurate seq...
Minho Lee, Chan-seok Jeong, Dongsup Kim
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Active query selection for learning rankers
Methods that reduce the amount of labeled data needed for training have focused more on selecting which documents to label than on which queries should be labeled. One exception t...
Mustafa Bilgic, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Predicting searcher frustration
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
Henry A. Feild, James Allan, Rosie Jones
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A case for query by image and text content: searching computer help using screenshots and keywords
The multimedia information retrieval community has dedicated extensive research effort to the problem of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, these systems find their ma...
Tom Yeh, Brandyn White, Jose San Pedro, Boris Katz...