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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
INEX
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Parameter Estimation for a Simple Hierarchical Generative Model for XML Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of using a modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm to estimate parameters for a simple hierarchical generative model for XML retr...
Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu