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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...
Ben Carterette, James Allan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
A Clustered Index Approach to Distributed XPath Processing
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
ICDCS
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Evaluating CORBA Latency and Scalability Over High-Speed ATM Networks
Conventional implementations of CORBA communication middleware incur significant overhead when used for performance-sensitive applications over high-speed networks. As gigabit ne...
Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
ICWS
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
DIALOG: Distributed Auditing Logs
Service-oriented systems facilitate business workflows to span multiple organizations (e.g. by means of Web services). As a side effect, data may be more easily transferred over o...
Christoph Ringelstein, Steffen Staab