Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
As more courseware becomes available, choosing the right functionality for a particular e-learning community is becoming more problematic. Systematic methods for evaluating course...
Partial evaluation aims to improve the efficiency of a program by specialising it with respect to some known inputs. In this paper, we show that partial evaluation can be an effec...