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CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Time-based language models
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Chung Tong Lee, Vishwa Vinay, Eduarda Mendes Rodri...
ITNG
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Study of Self-Organizing Map in Interactive Relevance Feedback
With the vast amount of potential relevant documents on the Web, a key question for a retrieval system is how to achieve a high accuracy retrieval under current Web setting. The w...
Daqing He
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The impact of crawl policy on web search effectiveness
Crawl selection policy has a direct influence on Web search effectiveness, because a useful page that is not selected for crawling will also be absent from search results. Yet th...
Dennis Fetterly, Nick Craswell, Vishwa Vinay
SIGIR
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Exploring the Similarity Space
Ranked queries are used to locate relevant documents in text databases. In a ranked query a list of terms is specified, then the documents that most closely match the query are re...
Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat