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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Human performance and retrieval precision revisited
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Blog snippets: a comments-biased approach
In the last years Blog Search has been a new exciting task in Information Retrieval. The presence of user generated information with valuable opinions makes this field of huge in...
Javier Parapar, Jorge López-Castro, Alvaro ...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Effective music tagging through advanced statistical modeling
Music information retrieval (MIR) holds great promise as a technology for managing large music archives. One of the key components of MIR that has been actively researched into is...
Jialie Shen, Wang Meng, Shuichang Yan, HweeHwa Pan...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...