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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
IADIS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Relational databases versus information retrieval systems: A case study
In this paper we present our evaluations of using an Information Retrieval library in a commercial employment website with over 300,000 searches a day. Comparison of existing rela...
Ozgur Yilmazel, Burcu Yurekli, Baris Yilmazel, Ahm...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Previous research on cluster-based retrieval has been inconclusive as to whether it does bring improved retrieval effectiveness over document-based retrieval. Recent developments ...
Xiaoyong Liu, W. Bruce Croft