Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
Forming test collection relevance judgments from the pooled output of multiple retrieval systems has become the standard process for creating resources such as the TREC, CLEF, and...
This survey paper provides an overview of content-based music information retrieval systems, both for audio and for symbolic music notation. Matching algorithms and indexing metho...
At its heart, music information retrieval is characterized by the need to find the similarity between pieces of music. However, “similar” does not mean “the same”. Theref...
This article describes the use of the medGIFT and easyIR retrieval systems for three of the four ImageCLEF 2005 retrieval tasks. We participated in the ad–hoc retrieval task that...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Abstract. To automatically retrieve documents or images from a database, retrieval systems use similarity measures to compare a request based on features extracted from the documen...
With the advent and proliferation of digital cameras and computers, the number of digital photos created and stored by consumers has grown extremely large. This created increasing...
Yi Wu, Igor Kozintsev, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Carole D...
The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted a...
David Bueno, Ricardo Conejo, Amos David, Cristina ...