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SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998
The existence and use of standard test collections in information retrieval experimentation allows results to be compared between research groups and over time. Such comparisons, ...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval
Search algorithms incorporating some form of topic model have a long history in information retrieval. For example, cluster-based retrieval has been studied since the 60s and has ...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft
IMCSIT
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Quality Benchmarking Relational Databases and Lucene in the TREC4 Adhoc Task Environment
The present work covers a comparison of the text retrieval qualities of open source relational databases and Lucene, which is a full text search engine library, over English docume...
Ahmet Arslan, Ozgur Yilmazel