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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 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
DL
1998
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
SONIA: A Service for Organizing Networked Information Autonomously
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Experiments with Geographic Evidence Extracted from Documents
Abstract. For the 2008 participation at GeoCLEF, we focused on improving the extraction of geographic signatures from documents and optimising their use for GIR. The results show t...
Nuno Cardoso, Patrícia Sousa, Mário ...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 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
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Text categorization by boosting automatically extracted concepts
Term-based representations of documents have found widespread use in information retrieval. However, one of the main shortcomings of such methods is that they largely disregard le...
Lijuan Cai, Thomas Hofmann