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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 5 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
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 26 days ago
A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Decomposing background topics from keywords by principal component pursuit
Low-dimensional topic models have been proven very useful for modeling a large corpus of documents that share a relatively small number of topics. Dimensionality reduction tools s...
Kerui Min, Zhengdong Zhang, John Wright, Yi Ma