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BMCBI
2008
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14 years 18 days ago
Objective and automated protocols for the evaluation of biomedical search engines using No Title Evaluation protocols
Background: The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. Thi...
Fabien Campagne
DEXAW
2010
IEEE
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14 years 20 days ago
Direct Optimization of Evaluation Measures in Learning to Rank Using Particle Swarm
— One of the central issues in Learning to Rank (L2R) for Information Retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures ...
Ósscar Alejo, Juan M. Fernández-Luna...
ICMCS
2010
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A framework for extracting musical similarities from peer-to-peer networks
The usage of peer-to-peer (p2p) networks for music information retrieval (MIR) tasks is gaining momentum. P2P file sharing networks can be used for collecting both search queries ...
Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt, Tomer Tankel, Ela...
GISCIENCE
2008
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Similarity-Based Information Retrieval and Its Role within Spatial Data Infrastructures
While similarity has gained in importance in research about information retrieval on the (geospatial) semantic Web, information retrieval paradigms and their integration into exist...
Krzysztof Janowicz, Marc Wilkes, Michael Lutz
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Information Retrieval Baselines for the ResPubliQA Task
This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA 2009 task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrie...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Guillermo Ga...
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
TALP at GikiCLEF 2009
This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval with the Wikipedia collection in the context of our participation in the GikiCLEF 2009 Multilingual task...
Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
ACL
1996
14 years 1 months ago
Noun-Phrase Analysis in Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
David A. Evans, ChengXiang Zhai
RIAO
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web
The techniques of information retrieval and information extraction are complementary, but to date there has been little concrete work aimed at integrating the two. We describe how...
Robert J. Gaizauskas, Alexander M. Robertson
ANLP
1997
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14 years 1 months ago
Building Effective Queries In Natural Language Information Retrieval
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
ECIR
1998
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Social and Cognitive Factors in the Design and Evaluation of Multimedia Systems
Multimedia information retrieval systems design is currently considered a complex task since it requires an understanding of users specific way of searching, processing and using ...
Silvia Gabrielli