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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu
EDBT
1998
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Processing Complex Similarity Queries with Distance-Based Access Methods
Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
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 ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
APWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Ontology Evaluation through Text Classification
We present a new method to evaluate a search ontology, which relies on mapping ontology instances to textual documents. On the basis of this mapping, we evaluate the adequacy of on...
Yael Dahan Netzer, David Gabay, Meni Adler, Yoav G...
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