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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
An evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes in information retrieval
This paper presents an evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes on short, medium and long TREC queries. A previously evolved global (collection-wide) term-weighting scheme is ...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
14 years 3 months ago
Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
Björn Þór Jónsson, Michae...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
DEXA
2007
Springer
91views Database» more  DEXA 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
An Evaluation of a Cluster-Based Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
Abstract. In this paper we provide a full-scale evaluation of a cluster-based architecture for P2P IR, focusing on retrieval effectiveness. We observe that there is a significant ...
Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam