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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images Using Google Earth
Using map visualisation tools and earth browsers to display images in a spatial context is integral to many photo-sharing sites and commercial image archives, yet little academic r...
Paul Clough, Simon Read
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards an Automatically Generated Music Information System Via Web Content Mining
Abstract. This paper presents first steps towards building a music information system like last.fm, but with the major difference that the data is automatically retrieved from the ...
Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Wid...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Wikipedia-Based Multilingual Retrieval Model
This paper introduces CL-ESA, a new multilingual retrieval model for the analysis of cross-language similarity. The retrieval model exploits the multilingual alignment of Wikipedia...
Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Maik Anderka
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating Paragraph Retrieval for
Abstract. We implemented a baseline approach to why-question answering based on paragraph retrieval. Our implementation incorporates the QAP ranking algorithm with addition of a nu...
Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Efficient Multimedia Time Series Data Retrieval Under Uniform Scaling and Normalisation
As the world has shifted towards manipulation of information and its technology, we have been increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of available multimedia data while having highe...
Waiyawuth Euachongprasit, Chotirat Ann Ratanamahat...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Comparison of Named Entity Patterns from a User Analysis and a System Analysis
This paper investigates the detection of named entity (NE) patterns by comparing the results of NE patterns resulting from a user analysis and a system analysis. Findings revealed ...
Masnizah Mohd, Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval
It is becoming increasingly common in information retrieval to combine evidence from multiple resources to compute the retrieval status value of documents. Although this has led to...
Sirvan Yahyaei, Christof Monz