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SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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13 years 11 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
2003
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
IR
2000
13 years 7 months ago
A Task-Oriented Non-Interactive Evaluation Methodology for Information Retrieval Systems
Past research has identified many different types of relevance in information retrieval (IR). So far, however, most evaluation of IR systems has been through batch experiments cond...
Jane Reid
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Handling implicit geographic evidence for geographic ir
Most geographic information retrieval systems depend on the detection and disambiguation of place names in documents, assuming that the documents with a specific geographic scope ...
Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Diana Santos