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SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 14 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
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Enhancing topic tracking with temporal information
In this paper, we propose a new strategy with time granularity reasoning for utilizing temporal information in topic tracking. Compared with previous ones, our work has four disti...
Baoli Li, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu