Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
We study the evaluation of opinion retrieval systems. Opinion retrieval is a relatively new research area, nevertheless classical evaluation measures, those adopted for ad hoc ret...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
This paper is about the work on user relevance feedback in image retrieval. We take this problem as a standard two-class pattern classification problem aiming at refining the retri...
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...