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LREC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Evaluation of Information Distillation Systems
We describe a methodology for evaluating the statistical performance of information distillation systems and apply it to a simple illustrative example. (An information distiller p...
J. V. White, D. Hunter, J. D. Goldstein
LREC
2010
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Evaluating Lexical Substitution: Analysis and New Measures
Lexical substitution is the task of finding a replacement for a target word in a sentence so as to preserve, as closely as possible, the meaning of the original sentence. It has b...
Sanaz Jabbari, Mark Hepple, Louise Guthrie
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
NLDB
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Character N-Grams Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper describes a new technique for the direct translation of character n-grams for use in Cross-Language Information Retrieval systems. This solution avoids the nee...
Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, Manuel Vil...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Iterative translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval
Finding a proper distribution of translation probabilities is one of the most important factors impacting the effectiveness of a crosslanguage information retrieval system. In th...
Christof Monz, Bonnie J. Dorr