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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
"They Are Out There, If You Know Where to Look": Mining Transliterations of OOV Query Terms for Cross-Language Information Retri
It is well known that the use of a good Machine Transliteration system improves the retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems when the query and ...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, Anton Bakalov, Ab...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the queryâ€...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Visual Concepts to Improve Text-Based Image Retrieval
In this paper, we study how to automatically exploit visual concepts in a text-based image retrieval task. First, we use Forest of Fuzzy Decision Trees (FFDTs) to automatically ann...
Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Christophe Mar...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve
Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
Pinar Donmez, Jaime G. Carbonell