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ICTIR
2009
Springer
16 years 24 days ago
Score Distributions in Information Retrieval
We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps
CLEF
2007
Springer
16 years 12 days ago
Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation
In this paper, we present our Hindi to English and Marathi to English CLIR systems developed as part of our participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc Bilingual task. We take a query tr...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Dam...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
CLEF
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Application of Variable Length N-Gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval
Our group in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oviedo has participated, for the first time, in two tasks at CLEF: monolingual (Russian) and bilingual (Spanish-to-E...
Daniel Gayo-Avello, Darío Álvarez Gu...
PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...