SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by ...
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper a new Query Performance Prediction method is introduced. This method is based on the hypothesis that different score distributions appear for ‘hard’ and ‘easyâ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
Numerous studies have examined the ability of query performance prediction methods to estimate a query’s quality for system effectiveness measures (such as average precision). ...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
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...