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SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
A study of inter-annotator agreement for opinion retrieval
Evaluation of sentiment analysis, like large-scale IR evaluation, relies on the accuracy of human assessors to create judgments. Subjectivity in judgments is a problem for relevan...
Adam Bermingham, Alan F. Smeaton
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
On the relative age of spam and ham training samples for email filtering
Email spam filters are commonly trained on a sample of spam and ham (non-spam) messages. We investigate the effect on filter performance of using samples of spam and ham messag...
Gordon V. Cormack, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Topic (query) selection for IR evaluation
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Two-stage query segmentation for information retrieval
Modeling term dependence has been shown to have a significant positive impact on retrieval. Current models, however, use sequential term dependencies, leading to an increased que...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith