Abstract. This paper describes the official measures of retrieval effectiveness employed in INEX 2005: the eXtended Cumulated Gain (XCG) measures. In addition, results of correlat...
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
In visual information retrieval the careful choice of suitable proximity measures is a crucial success factor. The evaluation presented in this paper aims at showing that the dist...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
This paper presents a unified framework for the evaluation of a range of structured document retrieval (SDR) approaches and tasks. The framework is based on a model of tree retrie...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Gabriella Kazai...