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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Topic (query) selection for IR evaluation
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Information retrieval from relational databases using semantic queries
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
Anand Ranganathan, Zhen Liu
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
James Allan, Ben Carterette, Joshua Lewis
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-Hoc Gaming
Abstract. Developing distributed multiplayer games for ad-hoc networks is challenging. Consistency of the replicated shared state is hard to ensure at a low cost. Current consisten...
Nuno Santos, Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
One-sided measures for evaluating ranked retrieval effectiveness with spontaneous conversational speech
Early speech retrieval experiments focused on news broadcasts, for which adequate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy could be obtained. Like newspapers, news broadcasts a...
Baolong Liu, Douglas W. Oard