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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2006
ACM
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...
SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2004
ACM
There is still no standardization of software measures and metrics extraction tools have to be updated frequently to handle the changes. A possible solution is represented by usin...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2002
ACM
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
APIN
1998
13 years 7 months ago
1998
Object localization has applications in many areas of engineering and science. The goal is to spatially locate an arbitrarily-shaped object. In many applications, it is desirable ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...