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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A hierarchical monothetic document clustering algorithm for summarization and browsing search results
Organizing Web search results into a hierarchy of topics and subtopics facilitates browsing the collection and locating results of interest. In this paper, we propose a new hierar...
Krishna Kummamuru, Rohit Lotlikar, Shourya Roy, Ka...
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees
INEX
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Overview of the INEX 2009 Book Track
Abstract. The goal of the INEX 2009 Book Track is to evaluate approaches for supporting users in reading, searching, and navigating the full texts of digitized books. The investiga...
Gabriella Kazai, Antoine Doucet, Marijn Koolen, Mo...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
GeoCLEF 2008: The CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
GeoCLEF is an evaluation initiative for testing queries with a geographic specification in large set of text documents. GeoCLEF ran a regular track for the third time within the C...
Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...