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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Parameter sensitivity in the probabilistic model for ad-hoc retrieval
The term frequency normalisation parameter sensitivity is an important issue in the probabilistic model for Information Retrieval. A high parameter sensitivity indicates that a sl...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
JASIS
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Written versus spoken queries: A qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis
This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from writ...
Fabio Crestani, Heather Du
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes in information retrieval
This paper presents an evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes on short, medium and long TREC queries. A previously evolved global (collection-wide) term-weighting scheme is ...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a documentindependent technique for eliciting feedback from users about their information problems. We propose that such a techni...
Diane Kelly, Vijay Deepak Dollu, Xin Fu
TREC
2004
13 years 7 months ago
University of Glasgow at TREC 2004: Experiments in Web, Robust, and Terabyte Tracks with Terrier
With our participation in TREC2004, we test Terrier, a modular and scalable Information Retrieval framework, in three tracks. For the mixed query task of the Web track, we employ ...
Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Iadh Ounis