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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Human performance and retrieval precision revisited
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Using local precision to compare search engines in consumer health information retrieval
We have conducted a user study to evaluate several generalist and health-specific search engines on health information retrieval. Users evaluated the relevance of the top 30 docum...
Carla Teixeira Lopes, Cristina Ribeiro
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
Mark Sanderson, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The importance of anchor text for ad hoc search revisited
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
CIVR
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Exploring the Synergy of Humans and Machines in Extreme Video Retrieval
We introduce an interface for efficient video search that exploits the human ability to quickly scan visual content, after automatic retrieval has arrange the images in expected or...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun...