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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Forming test collections with no system pooling
Forming test collection relevance judgments from the pooled output of multiple retrieval systems has become the standard process for creating resources such as the TREC, CLEF, and...
Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Catherine L. Smith, Paul B. Kantor
WSDM
2009
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Wikipedia pages as entry points for book search
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
GaP: a factor model for discrete data
We present a probabilistic model for a document corpus that combines many of the desirable features of previous models. The model is called “GaP” for Gamma-Poisson, the distri...
John F. Canny
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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 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...