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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
DKE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
CHI
1995
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1995
ACM
The field of information retrieval has traditionallyfocused on s consistingof titlesand abstracts. As a consequence, many underlying assumptions must be altered for retrieval fro...
AICS
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation s...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...