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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...