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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...
154
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AICS
2009
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Document length normalisation is known to be a difficult problem in IR, as tuning is often needed to overcome the collection dependence problem known to affect many normalisation s...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
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ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
We analyse the statistical behavior of query-associated quantities in query-logs, namely, the sum and mean of IDF of query terms, otherwise known as query specificity and query mea...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
2003
ACM
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...