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CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Effective collection metasearch in a hierarchical environment: global vs. localized retrieval performance
We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
Jack G. Conrad, Changwen Yang, Joanne S. Claussen
PODS
1989
ACM
155views Database» more  PODS 1989»
15 years 9 months ago
Fractals for Secondary Key Retrieval
In this paper we propose the use of fractals and especially the Hilbert curve, in order to design good distance-preserving mappings. Such mappings improve the performance of secon...
Christos Faloutsos, Shari Roseman
WSDM
2012
ACM
290views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 1 months ago
Online selection of diverse results
The phenomenal growth in the volume of easily accessible information via various web-based services has made it essential for service providers to provide users with personalized ...
Debmalya Panigrahi, Atish Das Sarma, Gagan Aggarwa...
TREC
2004
15 years 7 months ago
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at the TREC 2004 Robust Track
In the robust track, we mainly tested our passage-based retrieval model with different passage sizes and weighting schemes. In our approach, we used two retrieval models, namely t...
D. Y. Wang, Robert Wing Pong Luk, Kam-Fai Wong