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2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Parameterized concept weighting in verbose queries
The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the query concepts (e.g., terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. I...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Learning to rank from a noisy crowd
We study how to best use crowdsourced relevance judgments learning to rank [1, 7]. We integrate two lines of prior work: unreliable crowd-based binary annotation for binary classi...
Abhimanu Kumar, Matthew Lease
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
The interactive PRP for diversifying document rankings
The assumptions underlying the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) have led to a number of alternative approaches that cater or compensate for the PRP’s limitations. In this pos...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Mining weakly labeled web facial images for search-based face annotation
In this paper, we investigate a search-based face annotation framework by mining weakly labeled facial images that are freely available on the internet. A key component of such a ...
Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying He