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ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Ben Carterette
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Prior Information and the Determination of Event Spaces in Probabilistic Information Retrieval Models
Abstract. A mismatch between differenteventspaceshasbeen used toargue against rank equivalence of classic probabilistic models of information retrieval and language models. We ques...
Corrado Boscarino, Arjen P. de Vries
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Ranking List Dispersion as a Query Performance Predictor
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the hypothesis that different score d...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Lourdes Arau...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
What's in a Link? From Document Importance to Topical Relevance
Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Quantum-Based Model for Interactive Information Retrieval
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas