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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Human performance and retrieval precision revisited
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A comparison of retrieval-based hierarchical clustering approaches to person name disambiguation
This paper describes a simple clustering approach to person name disambiguation of retrieved documents. The methods are based on standard IR concepts and do not require any task-s...
Christof Monz, Wouter Weerkamp
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling expert finding as an absorbing random walk
We introduce a novel approach to expert finding based on multi-step relevance propagation from documents to related candidates. Relevance propagation is modeled with an absorbing ...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On metonymy recognition for geographic IR
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf