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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora
Searching an organization’s document repositories for experts provides a cost effective solution for the task of expert finding. We present two general strategies to expert se...
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Bias and the limits of pooling
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is...
Chris Buckley, Darrin Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval
Search algorithms incorporating some form of topic model have a long history in information retrieval. For example, cluster-based retrieval has been studied since the 60s and has ...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A geometric interpretation of r-precision and its correlation with average precision
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu