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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the query...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 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
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months 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...