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WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Object-level ranking: bringing order to Web objects
In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level....
Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying ...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Has portfolio theory got any principles?
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle to Rank Interdependent Documents
A known limitation of the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) is that it does not cater for dependence between documents. Recently, the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP)...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Estimating interference in the QPRP for subtopic retrieval
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Claudia Hauff, Keith...