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FLAIRS
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Fundamental Properties of the Core Matching Functions for Information Retrieval
Traditional benchmarking methods for information retrieval (IR) are based on experimental performance evaluation. Although the metrics precision and recall can measure the perform...
Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong, Peter Bruza, Chun Hung C...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Information credibility on twitter
We analyze the information credibility of news propagated through Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Previous research has shown that most of the messages posted on Twitter...
Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Barbara Poblete
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Evaluation of methods for relative comparison of retrieval systems based on clickthroughs
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
Jing He, Chengxiang Zhai, Xiaoming Li
ISI
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
DOTS: Detection of Off-Topic Search via Result Clustering
— Often document dissemination is limited to a “need to know” basis so as to better maintain organizational trade secrets. Retrieving documents that are off-topic to a user...
Nazli Goharian, Alana Platt