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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems
The goal of system evaluation in information retrieval has always been to determine which of a set of systems is superior on a given collection. The tool used to determine system ...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel
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CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Investigating the exhaustivity dimension in content-oriented XML element retrieval evaluation
INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...
Paul Ogilvie, Mounia Lalmas
CLEF
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Examining the Robustness of Evaluation Metrics for Patent Retrieval with Incomplete Relevance Judgements
Recent years have seen a growing interest in research into patent retrieval. One of the key issues in conducting information retrieval (IR) research is meaningful evaluation of the...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and Thesauri
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Configurable indexing and ranking for XML information retrieval
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...
Shaorong Liu, Qinghua Zou, Wesley W. Chu