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Query performance prediction
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Ranking List Dispersion as a Query Performance Predictor
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the hypothesis that different score d...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Lourdes Arau...
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
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the queryâ€...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Predicting Query Performance via Classification
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett