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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 23 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
CIVR
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Texture retrieval based on a non-parametric measure for multivariate distributions
In the present study, an efficient strategy for retrieving texture images from large texture databases is introduced and studied within a distributional-statistical framework. Our...
Vasileios K. Pothos, Christos Theoharatos, George ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...
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
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Combining document- and paragraph-based entity ranking
We study entity ranking on the INEX entity track and propose a simple graph-based ranking approach that enables to combine scores on document and paragraph level. The combined app...
Henning Rode, Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra