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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Beyond position bias: examining result attractiveness as a source of presentation bias in clickthrough data
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
Yisong Yue, Rajan Patel, Hein Roehrig
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Utility analysis for topically biased PageRank
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
Christian Kohlschütter, Paul-Alexandru Chirit...
ECIR
2006
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
The Effects on Topic Familiarity on Online Search Behaviour and Use of Relevance Criteria
This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of topic familiarity on the assessment behaviour of online searchers. In particular we investigate the effect of topic famil...
Lei Wen, Ian Ruthven, Pia Borlund
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluation by comparing result sets in context
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Paul Thomas, David Hawking