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SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
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...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...
IR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...
IR
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...