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CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of topic familiarity on the assessment behaviour of online searchers. In particular we investigate the effect of topic famil...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...