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SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating evaluation measure stability
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
WSDM
2010
ACM
259views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Revisiting Globally Sorted Indexes for Efficient Document Retrieval
There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Fan Zhang, Shuming Shi, Hao Yan, Ji-Rong Wen
TREC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
UTDallas at TREC 2008 Blog Track
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Bin Li, Feifan Liu, Yang Liu
ICML
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Bayesian regression with input noise for high dimensional data
This paper examines high dimensional regression with noise-contaminated input and output data. Goals of such learning problems include optimal prediction with noiseless query poin...
Jo-Anne Ting, Aaron D'Souza, Stefan Schaal
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra