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CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using RankBoost to compare retrieval systems
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Morphological Variation of Arabic Queries
Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries ...
Asaad Alberair, Mark Sanderson
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Fine-Grain Adaptive Compression in Dynamically Variable Networks
Despite voluminous previous research on adaptive compression, we found significant challenges when attempting to fully utilize both network bandwidth and CPU. We describe the Fine...
Calton Pu, Lenin Singaravelu
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Blogger, stick to your story: modeling topical noise in blogs with coherence measures
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
Jiyin He, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson, Maarten ...