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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
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
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EMNLP
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Positional Language Models for Clinical Information Retrieval
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
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CLIN
2001
14 years 11 months ago
Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus
This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch te...
Djoerd Hiemstra, David van Leeuwen