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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Ad hoc IR: not much room for improvement
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Andrew Trotman, David Keeler
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
TALP at GeoCLEF 2006: Experiments Using JIRS and Lucene with the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus
This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) in the context of our participation in the GeoCLEF 2006 Monolingual English task. The TALPGeoIR sy...
Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is concerned with the retrieval of documents based on both thematic and geographic content. An important issue in GIR, as for all IR, is rele...
Paul Clough, Hideo Joho, Ross Purves
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using Multiple Query Aspects to Build Test Collections without Human Relevance Judgments
Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
Miles Efron
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
An uncertainty-aware query selection model for evaluation of IR systems
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...