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ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Query Performance Prediction: Evaluation Contrasted with Effectiveness
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra, Fr...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Tripartite Hidden Topic Models for Personalised Tag Suggestion
Abstract. Social tagging systems provide methods for users to categorise resources using their own choice of keywords (or "tags") without being bound to a restrictive set...
Morgan Harvey, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven, Mark Jam...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of Language Identification Approaches on Short, Query-Style Texts
In a multi-language Information Retrieval setting, the knowledge about the language of a user query is important for further processing. Hence, we compare the performance of some t...
Thomas Gottron, Nedim Lipka
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Mining Neighbors' Topicality to Better Control Authority Flow
Web pages are often recognized by others through contexts. These contexts determine how linked pages influence and interact with each other. When differentiating such interactions,...
Na Dai, Brian D. Davison, Yaoshuang Wang
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Mining Anchor Text Trends for Retrieval
Anchor text has been considered as a useful resource to complement the representation of target pages and is broadly used in web search. However, previous research only uses anchor...
Na Dai, Brian D. Davison
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting Query Performance via Classification
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Finding Wormholes with Flickr Geotags
We propose a kernel convolution method to predict similar locations (wormholes) based on human travel behaviour. A scaling parameter can be used to define a set of relevant users t...
Maarten Clements, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vri...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating the Potential of Explicit Phrases for Retrieval Quality
This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and s...
Andreas Broschart, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Colouring the Dimensions of Relevance
In this article we introduce a visualisation technique for analysing relevance and interaction data. It allows the researcher to quickly detect emerging patterns in both interactio...
Ulises Cerviño Beresi, Yunhyong Kim, Mark B...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach for Temporal Information Needs
Klaus Berberich, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Omar Alonso...