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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Background: Finding relevant articles from PubMed is challenging because it is hard to express the user’s specific intention in the given query interface, and a keyword query ty...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
FQAS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
In focused XML retrieval, information retrieval systems have to find out which are the most appropriate retrieval units and return only these to the user, avoiding overlapping elem...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
2003
ACM
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...