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JUCS
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
Ranking Retrieval Systems with Partial Relevance Judgements
: Some measures such as mean average precision and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precision and recall that are t...
Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Indexing emails and email threads for retrieval
Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...
Yejun Wu, Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
An uncertainty-aware query selection model for evaluation of IR systems
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu