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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork
LAWEB
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Personal Information Ecosystems: Design Concerns for Net-Enabled Devices
Today, with the proliferation of affordable computing, people use multiple devices to fulfill their information needs. Designers approach each device platform individually, with...
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Manas Tung...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Ad hoc IR: not much room for improvement
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Andrew Trotman, David Keeler
OOIS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
From Use Cases to Objects: An Industrial Information Systems Case Study Analysis
Identifying the objects that constitute a software system is a critical task for any object-oriented system development and several techniques have already been introduced to tack...
João M. Fernandes, Ricardo Jorge Machado
IADIS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Grid Enabled Information Retrieval
Our research aims to further our understanding of Information Retrieval for management of knowledge within the Grid environment. We do so by developing a search and categorisation...
Babak Akhgar, Nahum Korda, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Me...