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ADC
2007
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Distributed Text Retrieval From Overlapping Collections
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Yaniv Bernstein
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
New Results on Quantum Property Testing
We present several new examples of speed-ups obtainable by quantum algorithms in the context of property testing. First, motivated by sampling algorithms, we consider probability d...
Sourav Chakraborty, Eldar Fischer, Arie Matsliah, ...
AIRS
2008
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On the Construction of a Large Scale Chinese Web Test Collection
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
Hongfei Yan, Chong Chen, Bo Peng, Xiaoming Li
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...
Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman
WSC
2008
14 years 12 months ago
In search of the memoryless property
This paper describes a distribution fitting exercise that has been used in an undergraduate introductory simulation class. The intent is for students to collect data describing a ...
Timothy S. Vaughan