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CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Relying on topic subsets for system ranking estimation
Ranking a number of retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on costly relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al [6]. Over th...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong,...
IICS
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Evaluation Framework for Semantic Search in P2P Networks
: We address the problem of evaluating peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2PIR) systems with semantic overlay structure. The P2PIR community lacks a commonly accepted testbed, su...
Florian Holz, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Gregor Hein...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to rank relevant and novel documents through user feedback
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Enabling multi-level relevance feedback on pubmed by integrating rank learning into DBMS
Background: Finding relevant articles from PubMed is challenging because it is hard to express the user’s specific intention in the given query interface, and a keyword query ty...
Hwanjo Yu, Taehoon Kim, Jinoh Oh, Ilhwan Ko, Sungc...