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ISAAC
2007
Springer
135views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Fast Evaluation of Union-Intersection Expressions
Abstract. We show how to represent sets in a linear space data structure such that expressions involving unions and intersections of sets can be computed in a worst-case efficient ...
Philip Bille, Anna Pagh, Rasmus Pagh
IV
2009
IEEE
185views Visualization» more  IV 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Real-World User Evaluations of a Visual and Interactive Web Search Interface
Although laboratory user studies are the most common method for validating the utility of information visualization systems, it may be difficult to determine if such studies accu...
Orland Hoeber, Daniel Schroeder, Michael Brooks
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Human performance and retrieval precision revisited
Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Mark D. Smucker, Chandra Prakash Jethani
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Annotation-Based Query and Document Expansion for Image Retrieval
Abstract. In this paper we report results of experiments conducted with strategies for improving text-based image retrieval. The adopted strategies were evaluated in the photograph...
Hugo Jair Escalante, Carlos A. Hernández, A...
JSW
2008
116views more  JSW 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
A Task-oriented Approach to Search Engine Usability Studies
Usability is a multi-dimensional characteristic of a computer system. This paper focuses on usability as a measurement of interaction between the user and the system. The research ...
Isak Taksa, Amanda Spink, Robert Goldberg