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DAWAK
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Using Transitivity to Increase the Accuracy of Sample-Based Pearson Correlation Coefficients
Abstract. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients are a wellpracticed quantification of linear dependence seen across many fields. When calculating a sample-based correlati...
Taylor Phillips, Chris GauthierDickey, Ramki Thuri...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Learning to rank query reformulations
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...
Van Dang, Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
An evaluation of Bradfordizing effects
The purpose of this paper is to apply and evaluate the bibliometric method Bradfordizing for information retrieval (IR) experiments. Bradfordizing is used for generating core docu...
Philipp Mayr
CSDA
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Practical representations of incomplete probabilistic knowledge
This article deals with the compact representation of incomplete probabilistic knowledge which can be encountered in risk evaluation problems, for instance in environmental studie...
Cédric Baudrit, Didier Dubois
JSAC
2006
120views more  JSAC 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Multiple-Source Internet Tomography
Abstract-- Information about the topology and link-level characteristics of a network is critical for many applications including network diagnostics and management. However, this ...
Michael Rabbat, Mark Coates, Robert D. Nowak