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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Inferring document relevance via average precision
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using a limited number of relevance judgments. Recent work has demonstrated that one can accurately estimate average precis...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Here or There
Abstract. Information retrieval systems have traditionally been evaluated over absolute judgments of relevance: each document is judged for relevance on its own, independent of oth...
Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chi...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluation over thousands of queries
Information retrieval evaluation has typically been performed over several dozen queries, each judged to near-completeness. There has been a great deal of recent work on evaluatio...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...
AIRS
2005
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On Effectiveness Measures and Relevance Functions in Ranking INEX Systems
Abstract. This paper investigates the effect of performance measures and relevance functions in comparing retrieval systems in INEX, an evaluation forum dedicated to XML retrieval....
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari