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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A study of inter-annotator agreement for opinion retrieval
Evaluation of sentiment analysis, like large-scale IR evaluation, relies on the accuracy of human assessors to create judgments. Subjectivity in judgments is a problem for relevan...
Adam Bermingham, Alan F. Smeaton
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
On the relative age of spam and ham training samples for email filtering
Email spam filters are commonly trained on a sample of spam and ham (non-spam) messages. We investigate the effect on filter performance of using samples of spam and ham messag...
Gordon V. Cormack, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Topic (query) selection for IR evaluation
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval
Modeling term dependence has been shown to have a significant positive impact on retrieval. Current models, however, use sequential term dependencies, leading to an increased que...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith