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IPM
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval
Users of search engines express their needs as queries, typically consisting of a small number of terms. The resulting search engine query logs are valuable resources that can be ...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Seyed M. M. Tahaghog...
SPIRE
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Retrieval Status Values in Information Retrieval Evaluation
Retrieval systems rank documents according to their retrieval status values (RSV) if these are monotonously increasing with the probability of relevance of documents. In this work,...
Amélie Imafouo, Xavier Tannier
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu
AIRS
2005
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
On Effectiveness Measures and Relevance Functions in Ranking INEX Systems
Abstract. This paper investigates the effect of performance measures and relevance functions in comparing retrieval systems in INEX, an evaluation forum dedicated to XML retrieval....
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking
Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Ben Carterette