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TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
COLING
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Bayes Risk-based Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval System with Speech Interface
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems
This paper is concerned with the evaluation of distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval systems. A new measure is introduced that compares results of a distributed retrie...
Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Hein...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Retrievability: an evaluation measure for higher order information access tasks
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay
IAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
User-Oriented Evaluation Methods for Interactive Web Search Interfaces
Although significant efforts have been devoted to the study and evaluation of information retrieval systems from an algorithmic perspective, far less work has been performed on t...
Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang