Sciweavers

2977 search results - page 70 / 596
» Evaluating the Effectiveness of Keyword Search
Sort
View
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Expected reciprocal rank for graded relevance
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Similarity is more important than expertise: accent effects in speech interfaces
In a balanced between-participants experiment (N = 96) American and Swedish participants listened to tourist information on a website about an American or Swedish city presented i...
Clifford Nass, Jenny Alwin, Nils Dahlbäck, Qi...
ITCC
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
A Methodology for Collection Selection in Heterogeneous Contexts
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
Faiza Abbaci, Michel Beigbeder, Jacques Savoy
CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
MorphoSaurus in ImageCLEF 2006: The Effect of Subwords On Biomedical IR
We here describe the subword approach we used in the 2006 ImageCLEF Medical Image Retrieval task. It is based on the assupmtion that neither fully inflected nor automatically stem...
Philipp Daumke, Jan Paetzold, Kornél G. Mar...