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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 ...
WEBI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A User-Centered Approach for Evaluating Query Expansion Methods
Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return a lot of irrelevant documents when the users’ queries are not specific enough. To...
Jean-Yves Delort
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Approximating true relevance distribution from a mixture model based on irrelevance data
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song