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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
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Approximating true relevance distribution from a mixture model based on irrelevance data
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song
GECCO
2005
Springer
186views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Subproblem optimization by gene correlation with singular value decomposition
Several ways of using singular value decomposition (SVD), a linear algebra technique typically used for information retrieval, to decompose problems into subproblems are investiga...
Jacob G. Martin
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Filtering microblogging messages for social TV
Social TV was named one of the ten most important emerging technologies in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Manufacturers of set-top boxes and televisions have recently started ...
Ovidiu Dan, Junlan Feng, Brian D. Davison