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ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Ben Carterette
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited Dependencies Language Model
Intuitively, any `bag of words' approach in IR should benefit from taking term dependencies into account. Unfortunately, for years the results of exploiting such dependencies ...
Eduard Hoenkamp, Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Qiang Hu...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Training Data Cleaning for Text Classification
Abstract. In text classification (TC) and other tasks involving supervised learning, labelled data may be scarce or expensive to obtain; strategies are thus needed for maximizing t...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Specificity Aboutness in XML Retrieval
This paper presents a theoretical methodology to evaluate filters in XML retrieval. Theoretical evaluation is concerned with the formal investigation of qualitative properties of r...
Tobias Blanke, Mounia Lalmas
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Prior Information and the Determination of Event Spaces in Probabilistic Information Retrieval Models
Abstract. A mismatch between differenteventspaceshasbeen used toargue against rank equivalence of classic probabilistic models of information retrieval and language models. We ques...
Corrado Boscarino, Arjen P. de Vries
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 6 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
ICONIP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Navel Orange Blemish Identification for Quality Grading System
MingHui Liu, Gadi Ben-Tal, Napoleon H. Reyes, Andr...
ICONIP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Study on Clustering Method by Self-Organizing Map and Information Criteria
In this paper, we propose a clustering method by SOM and information criteria. In this method, initial cluster-candidates are derived by SOM, and then these candidates are merged a...
Satoru Kato, Tadashi Horiuchi, Yoshio Itoh
ICONIP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Cyclostationarity Analysis Applied to Scaled Images
Abstract. The knowledge of image's geometric history plays an important role in image signal compression, image registration, image retrieval and especially in image forensics...
Babak Mahdian, Stanislav Saic