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CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
JIIS
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Image Mining: Trends and Developments
Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in very large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal useful informa...
Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee, Ji Zhang
RIAO
2000
13 years 10 months ago
The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story
This paper describes work within the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) over the last three years in designing and implementing evaluations of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) t...
John S. Garofolo, Cedric G. P. Auzanne, Ellen M. V...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Ryen W. White, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais
INFOSCALE
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Towards better measures: evaluation of estimated resource description quality for distributed IR
An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval systems (DIR) is how to represent large document repositories, also known as resources, both accurately and efficiently. Obt...
Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Fabio Crestani