AIR
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
Term-weighting schemes are vital to the performance of Information Retrieval models that use term frequency characteristics to determine the relevance of a document. The vector spa...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
IR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgment information. Buckley and Voorhees recently demonstrated that retrieval systems can be efficiently...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The current boom of the Web is associated with the revenues originated from on-line advertising. While search-based advertising is dominant, the association of ads with a Web page...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...