Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), a simple method for combining the document rankings from multiple IR systems, consistently yields better results than any individual system, and bett...
Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan B&...
Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
For many ranking applications we would like to understand not only which items are top-ranked, but also why they are top-ranked. However, many of the best ranking algorithms (e.g....
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Bert C. Huang, David L. Walt...
In the field of sensor networks, data integration and collaboration, and intelligence gathering efforts, information on the quality of data sources are important but are often not...