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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Automatic evaluation of world wide web search services
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
Abdur Chowdhury, Ian Soboroff
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Using manually-built web directories for automatic evaluation of known-item retrieval
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on a hierarchical directory
Although text categorization is a burgeoning area of IR research, readily available test collections in this field are surprisingly scarce. We describe a methodology and system (...
Dmitry Davidov, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shaul Markovi...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Algorithmic detection of semantic similarity
Automatic extraction of semantic information from text and links in Web pages is key to improving the quality of search results. However, the assessment of automatic semantic meas...
Ana Gabriela Maguitman, Filippo Menczer, Heather R...