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CLEF
2010
Springer
15 years 22 days ago
Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Relying on topic subsets for system ranking estimation
Ranking a number of retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on costly relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al [6]. Over th...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong,...
IICS
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
An Evaluation Framework for Semantic Search in P2P Networks
: We address the problem of evaluating peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2PIR) systems with semantic overlay structure. The P2PIR community lacks a commonly accepted testbed, su...
Florian Holz, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Gregor Hein...
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Learning to rank relevant and novel documents through user feedback
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Enabling multi-level relevance feedback on pubmed by integrating rank learning into DBMS
Background: Finding relevant articles from PubMed is challenging because it is hard to express the user’s specific intention in the given query interface, and a keyword query ty...
Hwanjo Yu, Taehoon Kim, Jinoh Oh, Ilhwan Ko, Sungc...