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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Reusable test collections through experimental design
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Exploring the use of labels to shortcut search trails
Search trails comprising queries and Web page views are created as searchers engage in information-seeking activity online. During known-item search (where the objective may be to...
Ryen W. White, Raman Chandrasekar
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Where to start filtering redundancy?: a cluster-based approach
Novelty detection is a difficult task, particularly at sentence level. Most of the approaches proposed in the past consist of re-ordering all sentences following their novelty sco...
Ronald T. Fernández, Javier Parapar, David ...