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CLEF
2010
Springer
15 years 26 days ago
Applying the KISS Principle for the CLEF- IP 2010 Prior Art Candidate Patent Search Task
We present our experiments and results for the DCU CNGL participation in the CLEF-IP 2010 Candidate Patent Search Task. Our work applied standard information retrieval (IR) techniq...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
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
ACL
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Language Model Information Retrieval System with Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Jyun-Wei Huang
JASIS
2010
124views more  JASIS 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Query polyrepresentation for ranking retrieval systems without relevance judgments
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
Miles Efron, Megan A. Winget
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra