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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Top-k learning to rank: labeling, ranking and evaluation
In this paper, we propose a novel top-k learning to rank framework, which involves labeling strategy, ranking model and evaluation measure. The motivation comes from the difficul...
Shuzi Niu, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
EntityEngine: answering entity-relationship queries using shallow semantics
We introduce EntityEngine, a system for answering entityrelationship queries over text. Such queries combine SQLlike structures with IR-style keyword constraints and therefore, ca...
Xiaonan Li, Chengkai Li, Cong Yu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Interactive retrieval based on faceted feedback
Motivated by the commonly used faceted search interface in e-commerce, this paper investigates interactive relevance feedback mechanism based on faceted document metadata. In this...
Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Evaluating web search using task completion time
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
Ya Xu, David Mease