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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Relevance judgments between TREC and Non-TREC assessors
This paper investigates the agreement of relevance assessments between official TREC judgments and those generated from an interactive IR experiment. Results show that 63% of docu...
Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough
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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An effective semantic search technique using ontology
In this paper, we present a semantic search technique considering the type of desired Web resources and the semantic relationships between the resources and the query keywords in ...
Jihyun Lee, Jun-Ki Min, Chin-Wan Chung
IPM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Automatic ranking of information retrieval systems using data fusion
Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, w...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can