In: The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2014, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 186-200
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In: Journal of the American society for information science and technology, 2009, vol. 60, no. 6, p. 1294-1297
Although retrieval systems based on probabilistic models will rank the objects (e.g. documents) being retrieved according to the probability of some matching criterion (e.g. relevance) they rarely yield an actual probability and the scoring function is interpreted to be purely ordinal within a given retrieval task. In this paper it is shown that some scoring functions possess the likelihood...
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In: Data & knowledge engineering, 2010, vol. 69, no. 3, p. 303-315
The ability to infer the characteristics of offenders from their criminal behaviour (‘offender profiling’) has only been partially successful since it has relied on subjective judgments based on limited data. Words and structured data used in crime descriptions recorded by the police relate to behavioural features. Thus Language Modelling was applied to an existing police archive to link ...
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In: Information Retrieval, 2011, vol. 14, no. 4, p. 390-412
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In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006, vol. 4209, p. 316-328
As part of a Distributed Information Retrieval system a description of each remote information resource, archive or repository is usually stored centrally in order to facilitate resource selection. The acquisition of precise resource descriptions is therefore an important phase in Distributed Information Retrieval, as the quality of such representations will impact on selection accuracy, and...
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In: Lecture notes in computer science, 2009, vol. 1923, p. 324-327
We briefly outline the ongoing research at Strathclyde University on the use of spoken query processing for information access in digital libraries.
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In: Lecture notes in computer science, 2009, vol. 1513, p. 397-407
This paper describes a number of experiments that explored the issues surrounding the retrieval of spoken documents. Two such issues were examined. First, attempting to find the best use of speech recogniser output to produce the highest retrieval effectiveness. Second, investigating the potential problems of retrieving from a so-called "mixed collection", i.e. one that contains documents from...
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In: International journal on digital libraries, 2006, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 192-209
We present the results and the lessons learned from two separate and independent studies into the design, development, and evaluation of electronic books for information access: the Visual Book and the Hyper-TextBook. The Visual Book explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor in the production of “good” electronic books for referencing. The Hyper-TextBook...
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In: Personal and ubiquitous computing, 2006, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 193-194
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In: Information retrieval, 2008, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 267-268
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