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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Empirical justification of the gain and discount function for nDCG
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
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
CLEF
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Approaching Question Answering by Means of Paragraph Validation
In this paper we describe the system we developed for taking part in monolingual Spanish and English tasks at ResPubliQA 2009. Our system was composed by an IR phase focused on im...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez...
RSFDGRC
2011
Springer
255views Data Mining» more  RSFDGRC 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
Construction and Analysis of Web-Based Computer Science Information Networks
WINACS (Web-based Information Network Analysis for Computer Science) is a project that incorporates many recent, exciting developments in data sciences to construct a Web-based co...
Jiawei Han