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BTW
2009
Springer
118views Database» more  BTW 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Thomas Mandl
FQAS
2009
Springer
142views Database» more  FQAS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query - An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Mont...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Using graphics processors for high-performance IR query processing
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Shuai Ding, Jinru He, Hao Yan, Torsten Suel
ADC
2004
Springer
105views Database» more  ADC 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
Do Clarity Scores for Queries Correlate with User Performance?
Recently the concept of a clarity score was introduced in order to measure the ambiguity of a query in relation to the collection in which the query issuer is seeking information ...
Andrew Turpin, William R. Hersh
ICDE
2007
IEEE
173views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Accelerating Profile Queries in Elevation Maps
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
Feng Pan, Wei Wang 0010, Leonard McMillan