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RSKT
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Three-Way Decision: An Interpretation of Rules in Rough Set Theory
Abstract. A new interpretation of rules in rough set theory is introduced. According to the positive, boundary, and negative regions of a set, one can make a three-way decision: ac...
Yiyu Yao
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
A Four-Factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval
In order to bridge the “Semantic gap”, a number of relevance feedback (RF) mechanisms have been applied to content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However current RF techniques i...
Haiming Liu 0002, Victoria S. Uren, Dawei Song, St...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels
We introduce perturbation kernels, a new class of similarity measure for information retrieval that casts word similarity in terms of multi-task learning. Perturbation kernels mode...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval
We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Time-Sensitive Language Modelling for Online Term Recurrence Prediction
We address the problem of online term recurrence prediction: for a stream of terms, at each time point predict what term is going to recur next in the stream given the term occurre...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu, Robert Mao, Jian-Yun Nie
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis
Abstract. We have found that the nearest neighbor (NN) test is an insufficient measure of the cluster hypothesis. The NN test is a local measure of the cluster hypothesis. Designer...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
A Quantum-Based Model for Interactive Information Retrieval
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Modeling the Score Distributions of Relevant and Non-relevant Documents
Empirical modeling of the score distributions associated with retrieved documents is an essential task for many retrieval applications. In this work, we propose modeling the releva...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu, Keshi Dai, Jav...