Lester Litchfield

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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0000-0002-1687-0508ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Information retrieval · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › query understanding
query classification
0.412020
Query Classification with Multi-objective Backoff Optimization · SIGIR 2020
Information retrieval › query reformulation
query expansion
0.112020
Query Classification with Multi-objective Backoff Optimization · SIGIR 2020

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

topic model · 0.4machine learning classifier · 0.4click-through data · 0.4
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2023 Evaluating Mammogram Image Classification: Impact of Model Architectures, Pretraining, and Finetuning
Kaier Wang, Aristarkh Tikhonov, Melissa L. Hill, Lester Litchfield
PSIVT4
2020 Query Classification with Multi-objective Backoff Optimization
abstract
This paper describes a query classification system for a specialized domain. We take as a case study queries asked to a search engine of an art, cultural and history library and classify them against the library cataloguing categories. We show how click-through links, i.e., the links that a user clicks after submitting a query, can be exploited for extracting information useful to enrich the query as well as for creating the training set for a machine learning based classifier. Moreover, we show how Topic Model can be exploited to further enrich the query with hidden topics induced from the library meta-data. The experimental evaluations show that this system considerably outperforms a matching and ranking classification approach, where queries (and categories) were also enriched with similar information. 1
Lester Litchfield
SIGIR2