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2003
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15 years 3 months ago
Using manually-built web directories for automatic evaluation of known-item retrieval
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
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2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks
As a result of the anonymity in todays Web search, it is not possible to receive a personalized search result. Neither prior search results nor search results from other users are ...
Melanie Gnasa, Sascha Alda, Jasmin Grigull, Armin ...
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Collaborative filtering via gaussian probabilistic latent semantic analysis
Collaborative filtering aims at learning predictive models of user preferences, interests or behavior from community data, i.e. a database of available user preferences. In this ...
Thomas Hofmann