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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Precision-at-ten considered redundant
Information retrieval systems are compared using evaluation metrics, with researchers commonly reporting results for simple metrics such as precision-at-10 or reciprocal rank toge...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tet...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Exploiting sequential dependencies for expert finding
We propose an expert finding method based on assumption of sequential dependence between a candidate expert and the query terms in the scope of a document. We assume that the stre...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Emulating query-biased summaries using document titles
Generating query-biased summaries can take up a large part of the response time of interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems. This paper proposes to use document titles as a...
Hideo Joho, David Hannah, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Locating relevant text within XML documents
Traditional document retrieval has shown to be a competitive approach in XML element retrieval, which is counter-intuitive since the element retrieval task requests all and only r...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, Mounia Lalmas
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Re-ranking search results using document-passage graphs
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
Michael Bendersky, Oren Kurland