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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...
AICS
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation s...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
We analyse the statistical behavior of query-associated quantities in query-logs, namely, the sum and mean of IDF of query terms, otherwise known as query specificity and query mea...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...