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2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Compressed collections for simulated crawling
Collections are a fundamental tool for reproducible evaluation of information retrieval techniques. We describe a new method for distributing the document lengths and term counts ...
Alessio Orlandi, Sebastiano Vigna
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
The impact of history length on personalized search
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
Yangbo Zhu, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Relevance judgments between TREC and Non-TREC assessors
This paper investigates the agreement of relevance assessments between official TREC judgments and those generated from an interactive IR experiment. Results show that 63% of docu...
Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Query-drift prevention for robust query expansion
Pseudo-feedback-based automatic query expansion yields effective retrieval performance on average, but results in performance inferior to that of using the original query for many...
Liron Zighelnic, Oren Kurland
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Using parsimonious language models on web data
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Rianne Kaptein, Rongmei Li, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jaap ...