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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
One of the central issues in learning to rank for information retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures used in i...
Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma
IR
2000
13 years 7 months ago
A Task-Oriented Non-Interactive Evaluation Methodology for Information Retrieval Systems
Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...
Jane Reid
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2008 Photographic Retrieval Task
ImageCLEFphoto 2008 is an ad-hoc photo retrieval task and part of the ImageCLEF evaluation campaign. This task provides both the resources and the framework necessary to perform c...
Thomas Arni, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Michael ...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 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