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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork
SAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Diverse peer selection in collaborative web search
Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any central...
Le-Shin Wu, Filippo Menczer
ACL
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition
We present a novel hierarchical prior structure for supervised transfer learning in named entity recognition, motivated by the common structure of feature spaces for this task acr...
Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen
TMC
2012
13 years 8 months ago
The Boomerang Protocol: Tying Data to Geographic Locations in Mobile Disconnected Networks
—We present the boomerang protocol to efficiently retain information at a particular geographic location in a sparse network of highly mobile nodes without using infrastructure ...
Tingting Sun, Bin Zan, Yanyong Zhang, Marco Grutes...