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SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
A comparison of retrieval-based hierarchical clustering approaches to person name disambiguation
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
Christof Monz, Wouter Weerkamp
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
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...
Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maart...