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ADC
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Text Retrieval From Overlapping Collections
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Yaniv Bernstein
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 29 days 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
IPM
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
QCS: A system for querying, clustering and summarizing documents
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
GhostDB: querying visible and hidden data without leaks
Imagine that you have been entrusted with private data, such as corporate product information, sensitive government information, or symptom and treatment information about hospita...
Nicolas Anciaux, Mehdi Benzine, Luc Bouganim, Phil...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...