SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We consider classification of email messages as to whether or not they contain certain “email acts”, such as a request or a commitment. We show that exploiting the sequential ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We present a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music, the MusicSurfer. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentatio...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We consider the problem of document indexing and representation. Recently, Locality Preserving Indexing (LPI) was proposed for learning a compact document subspace. Different from...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
In Information Retrieval (IR), the Dirichlet Priors have been applied to the smoothing technique of the language modeling approach. In this paper, we apply the Dirichlet Priors to...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM