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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Explicit relevance models in intent-oriented information retrieval diversification
The intent-oriented search diversification methods developed in the field so far tend to build on generative views of the retrieval system to be diversified. Core algorithm compon...
Saul Vargas, Pablo Castells, David Vallet
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Predicting the ratings of multimedia items for making personalized recommendations
Existing multimedia recommenders suggest a specific type of multimedia items rather than items of different types personalized for a user based on his/her preference. Assume tha...
Rani Qumsiyeh, Yiu-Kai Ng
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
A subjunctive exploratory search interface to support media studies researchers
Media studies concerns the study of production, content, and/or reception of various types of media. Today’s continuous production and storage of media is changing the way media...
Marc Bron, Jasmijn van Gorp, Frank Nack, Maarten d...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Parallelizing ListNet training using spark
As ever-larger training sets for learning to rank are created, scalability of learning has become increasingly important to achieving continuing improvements in ranking accuracy [...
Shilpa Shukla, Matthew Lease, Ambuj Tewari
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Content-based retrieval for heterogeneous domains: domain adaptation by relative aggregation points
We introduce the problem of domain adaptation for content-based retrieval and propose a domain adaptation method based on relative aggregation points (RAPs). Content-based retriev...
Makoto P. Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Optimizing positional index structures for versioned document collections
Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...
Jinru He, Torsten Suel
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Language intent models for inferring user browsing behavior
Modeling user browsing behavior is an active research area with tangible real-world applications, e.g., organizations can adapt their online presence to their visitors browsing be...
Manos Tsagkias, Roi Blanco
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Boosting multi-kernel locality-sensitive hashing for scalable image retrieval
Similarity search is a key challenge for multimedia retrieval applications where data are usually represented in high-dimensional space. Among various algorithms proposed for simi...
Hao Xia, Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Task complexity, vertical display and user interaction in aggregated search
Aggregated search is the task of blending results from specialized search services or verticals into the Web search results. While many studies have focused on aggregated search t...
Jaime Arguello, Wan-Ching Wu, Diane Kelly, Ashlee ...