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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
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Data Fusion for Outlier Detection through Pseudo-ROC Curves and Rank Distributions
— This paper proposes a novel method of fusing models for classification of unbalanced data. The unbalanced data contains a majority of healthy (negative) instances, and a minor...
Paul F. Evangelista, Mark J. Embrechts, Boleslaw K...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A cautious surfer for PageRank
This work proposes a novel cautious surfer to incorporate trust into the process of calculating authority for web pages. We evaluate a total of sixty queries over two large, real-...
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison