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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
ICDIM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A product retrieval system robust to subjective queries
: In this paper, we propose a method for retrieving products that match users’ search queries written in natural language. We use a large amount of product reviews written by con...
Kenji Sugiki, Shigeki Matsubara
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
14 years 23 days 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
2006
ACM
14 years 2 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
LREC
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval
In this paper we present an evaluation resource for geographic information retrieval developed within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The GeoCLEF track is dedicated to...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...