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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Using parsimonious language models on web data
In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
Rianne Kaptein, Rongmei Li, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jaap ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Precision-at-ten considered redundant
Information retrieval systems are compared using evaluation metrics, with researchers commonly reporting results for simple metrics such as precision-at-10 or reciprocal rank toge...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tet...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Multi-robot manipulation via caging in environments with obstacles
Abstract— We present a decentralized approach to multirobot manipulation where the team of robots surround and trap an object and transport it, by dragging or pushing, to the goa...
Jonathan Fink, M. Ani Hsieh, Vijay Kumar
FLAIRS
2008
15 years 9 months ago
QueSTS: A Query Specific Text Summarization System
Effective extraction of query relevant information present within documents on the web is a nontrivial task. In this paper we present our system called QueSTS, which does the abov...
M. Sravanthi, C. Ravindranath Chowdary, P. Sreeniv...