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ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Category-Based Query Modeling for Entity Search
Abstract. Users often search for entities instead of documents and in this setting are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a query, such as category information and exam...
Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
ISMIR
2004
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Search Effectiveness Measures for Symbolic Music Queries in Very Large Databases
In the interest of establishing robust benchmarks for search efficiency, we conducted a series of tests on symbolic databases of musical incipits and themes taken from several di...
Craig Stuart Sapp, Yi-Wen Liu, Eleanor Selfridge-F...
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Predicting Query Performance via Classification
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett