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CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
Recommender Systems by means of Information Retrieval
In this paper we present a method for reformulating the Recommender Systems problem in an Information Retrieval one. In our tests we have a dataset of users who give ratings for s...
Alberto Costa, Fabio Roda
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 9 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
SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
RIAO
1997
15 years 5 months ago
An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases
As the amount of textual information available through the World Wide Web grows, there is a growing need for high-precision IR systems that enable a user to nd useful information ...
Mandar Mitra, Chris Buckley, Amit Singhal, Claire ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Using the current browsing context to improve search relevance
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan