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ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the queryâ€...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives
In this paper we address the task of ï¬nding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolat...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
WISE
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Personalizing the Interface in Rich Internet Applications
Recently, existing design methodologies targeting traditional Web applications have been extended for Rich Internet Application modeling support. These extended methodologies curre...
Irene Garrigós, Santiago Meliá, Sven...