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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Approximating true relevance distribution from a mixture model based on irrelevance data
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Peng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Dawei Song
GECCO
2005
Springer
186views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Subproblem optimization by gene correlation with singular value decomposition
Several ways of using singular value decomposition (SVD), a linear algebra technique typically used for information retrieval, to decompose problems into subproblems are investiga...
Jacob G. Martin
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Filtering microblogging messages for social TV
Social TV was named one of the ten most important emerging technologies in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Manufacturers of set-top boxes and televisions have recently started ...
Ovidiu Dan, Junlan Feng, Brian D. Davison