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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2005
ACM
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
2003
ACM
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...
WSDM
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
While test collection construction is a time-consuming and expensive process, the true cost is amortized by reusing the collection over hundreds or thousands of experiments. Some ...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
1998
ACM
Two stages in measurement of techniques for information retrieval are gathering of documents for relevance assessment and use of the assessments to numerically evaluate effective...