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IR
2006
14 years 10 months ago
Full-text federated search of text-based digital libraries in peer-to-peer networks
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks integrate autonomous computing resources without requiring a central coordinating authority, which makes them a potentially robust and scalabl...
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
ISSRE
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Pinpointing the Subsystems Responsible for the Performance Deviations in a Load Test
—Large scale systems (LSS) contain multiple subsystems that interact across multiple nodes in sometimes unforeseen and complicated ways. As a result, pinpointing the subsystems t...
Haroon Malik, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
JASIS
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Linear time series models for term weighting in information retrieval
Common measures of term importance in information retrieval (IR) rely on counts of term frequency; rare terms receive higher weight in document ranking than common terms receive. ...
Miles Efron