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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A High Precision Information Retrieval Method for WiQA
This paper presents Wolverhampton University's participation in the WiQA competition. The method chosen for this task combines a high precision, but low recall information re...
Constantin Orasan, Georgiana Puscasu
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Surrogate scoring for improved metasearch precision
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, Sirvan Yahyaei