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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
CLEF
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Document Selection
Abstract. The problem of nding documents that are written in a language that the searcher cannot read is perhaps the most challenging application of Cross-Language Information Retr...
Douglas W. Oard
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
IDEAL
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
E.Coli Search: Self Replicating Agents for Web Based Information Retrieval
: Although search engines are often used for information retrieval (IR) from the World Wide Web (WWW), current search engine technology seems obsolete. The quality of query results...
Derrick Takeshi Mirikitani, Ibrahim Kushchu