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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Liberal relevance criteria of TREC -: counting on negligible documents?
Most test collections (like TREC and CLEF) for experimental research in information retrieval apply binary relevance assessments. This paper introduces a four-point relevance scal...
Eero Sormunen
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Choosing your own adventure: automatic taxonomy generation to permit many paths
A taxonomy organizes concepts or topics in a hierarchical structure and can be created manually or via automated systems. A major drawback of taxonomies is that they require users...
Xiaoguang Qi, Dawei Yin, Zhenzhen Xue, Brian D. Da...
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Finding our way on the web: exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...
Ryen W. White, Adish Singla
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
SIMD-based decoding of posting lists
Powerful SIMD instructions in modern processors offer an opportunity for greater search performance. In this paper, we apply these instructions to decoding search engine posting ...
Alexander A. Stepanov, Anil R. Gangolli, Daniel E....