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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Estimating query performance using class predictions
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Ranking robustness: a novel framework to predict query performance
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...
Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Query Performance Prediction: Evaluation Contrasted with Effectiveness
Query performance predictors are commonly evaluated by reporting correlation coefficients to denote how well the methods perform at predicting the retrieval performance of a set of...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra, Fr...
GRID
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Predicting the Performance of Globus Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS-2) Queries
Resource discovery and monitoring in a distributed Grid environment gives rise to several issues, one of which is the provision of reliable performance and hence, the quality-ofse...
Helene N. Lim Choi Keung, Justin R. D. Dyson, Step...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the queryâ€...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra