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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...
Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Chung Tong Lee, Vishwa Vinay, Eduarda Mendes Rodri...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient and effective link analysis with precomputed salsa maps
SALSA is a link-based ranking algorithm that takes the result set of a query as input, extends the set to include additional neighboring documents in the web graph, and performs a...
Marc Najork, Nick Craswell
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel