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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
BTW
2009
Springer
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14 years 1 days ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Thomas Mandl
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
An evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes in information retrieval
This paper presents an evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes on short, medium and long TREC queries. A previously evolved global (collection-wide) term-weighting scheme is ...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
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
2004
ACM
14 years 24 days 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