ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
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 ...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper, we propose a model for exploiting community based usage information for video retrieval. Implicit usage information from a pool of past users could be a valuable sou...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. This paper investigates a new extension of the Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) model [6] for text classification where the training set is partially labeled...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
Cross-language Information Retrieval requires good methods for translating cross-lingual spelling variants which are not covered by the available dictionary resources. FITE-TRT is ...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper is concerned with the evaluation of distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval systems. A new measure is introduced that compares results of a distributed retrie...
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet...