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CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
Probability Based Clustering for Document and User Properties
Information Retrieval systems can be improved by exploiting context information such as user and document features. This article presents a model based on overlapping probabilistic...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Spoken content retrieval: Searching spontaneous conversational speech
The second workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2008) was held in Singapore on July 24, 2008 in conjunction with the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR C...
Joachim Köhler, Martha Larson, Franciska de J...
JUCS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Ranking Retrieval Systems with Partial Relevance Judgements
: Some measures such as mean average precision and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precision and recall that are t...
Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani
DELOS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Challenging Ubiquitous Inverted Files
Stand-alone ranking systems based on highly optimized inverted file structures are generally considered `the' solution for building search engines. Observing various developm...
Arjen P. de Vries
TREC
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Keep It Simple Sheffield - A KISS Approach to the Arabic Track
Sheffield's participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here. Our goal was to examine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the...
Mark Sanderson, Asaad Alberair
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using RankBoost to compare retrieval systems
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
AIRS
2005
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
On Effectiveness Measures and Relevance Functions in Ranking INEX Systems
Abstract. This paper investigates the effect of performance measures and relevance functions in comparing retrieval systems in INEX, an evaluation forum dedicated to XML retrieval....
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
ERCIMDL
2003
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Reference Directed Indexing: Redeeming Relevance for Subject Search in Citation Indexes
Abstract. Citation indexes are valuable tools for research, in part because they provide a means with which to measure the relative impact of articles in a collection of scientifi...
Shannon Bradshaw
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can