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ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis
Abstract. We have found that the nearest neighbor (NN) test is an insufficient measure of the cluster hypothesis. The NN test is a local measure of the cluster hypothesis. Designer...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The University of Lisbon at CLEF 2006 Ad-Hoc Task
This paper reports the participation of the XLDB Group from the University of Lisbon in the CLEF 2006 ad-hoc monolingual and bilingual subtasks for Portuguese. We present our IR s...
Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Bruno Martins
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
Björn Þór Jónsson, Michae...
LREC
2008
88views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval
In this paper we present an evaluation resource for geographic information retrieval developed within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The GeoCLEF track is dedicated to...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...