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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
IADT
1998
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13 years 6 months ago
Content-Based Retrieval of Musical Scores in an Object-Oriented Database System
: The aim of this work is to present the Musical Score as a new attribute characteristic in an object-oriented database. It defines a new data type for attributes that can be assoc...
Marisa Beck Figueiredo, Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
ADC
2009
Springer
140views Database» more  ADC 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Score Aggregation Techniques in Retrieval Experimentation
Comparative evaluations of information retrieval systems are based on a number of key premises, including that representative topic sets can be created, that suitable relevance ju...
Sri Devi Ravana, Alistair Moffat
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998
The existence and use of standard test collections in information retrieval experimentation allows results to be compared between research groups and over time. Such comparisons, ...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...