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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Hybrid index maintenance for growing text collections
We present a new family of hybrid index maintenance strategies to be used in on-line index construction for monotonically growing text collections. These new strategies improve up...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Brad L...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Theoretical benchmarks of XML retrieval
This poster investigates the use of theoretical benchmarks to describe the matching functions of XML retrieval systems and the properties of specificity and exhaustivity in XML r...
Tobias Blanke, Mounia Lalmas
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Bias and the limits of pooling
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
User expectations from XML element retrieval
The primary aim of XML element retrieval is to return to users XML elements, rather than whole documents. This poster describes a small study, in which we elicited users’ expect...
Stamatina Betsi, Mounia Lalmas, Anastasios Tombros...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
PENG: integrated search of distributed news archives
Mark Baillie, Fabio Crestani, Monica Landoni
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Generalizing PageRank: damping functions for link-based ranking algorithms
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Paolo Boldi, Carlos Castil...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive query-based sampling for distributed IR
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Baillie, Fabio Crestani
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Inferring document relevance via average precision
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using a limited number of relevance judgments. Recent work has demonstrated that one can accurately estimate average precis...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz