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SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic models of ranking novel documents for faceted topic retrieval
Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
Ben Carterette, Praveen Chandar
IPM
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Percent perfect performance (PPP)
An information retrieval performance measure that is interpreted as the percent of perfect performance (PPP) can be used to study the effects of the inclusion of specific documen...
Robert M. Losee
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...