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SPIRE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Retrieval systems rank documents according to their retrieval status values (RSV) if these are monotonously increasing with the probability of relevance of documents. In this work,...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 7 hour ago
2010
ACM
Information retrieval (IR) evaluation scores are generally designed to measure the effectiveness with which relevant documents are identified and retrieved. Many scores have been ...
GECCO
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2009
Springer
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...