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CIVR
2008
Springer
127views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Performance evaluation of relevance feedback methods
In this paper we review the evaluation of relevance feedback methods for content-based image retrieval systems. We start out by presenting an overview of current common practice, ...
Mark J. Huiskes, Michael S. Lew
WSDM
2010
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Quality of Training Data for Learning to Rank Using Click-Through Data
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
LREC
2008
88views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval
In this paper we present an evaluation resource for geographic information retrieval developed within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The GeoCLEF track is dedicated to...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Reusable test collections through experimental design
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical justification of the gain and discount function for nDCG
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam