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MMS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation and analysis of similarity measures for content-based visual information retrieval
The selection of appropriate proximity measures is one of the crucial success factors of content-based visual information retrieval. In this area of research, proximity measures ar...
Horst Eidenberger
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...
Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
Mark Sanderson, Justin Zobel
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
BTW
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Thomas Mandl