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CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2009
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Evaluating high accuracy retrieval techniques
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
Chirag Shah, W. Bruce Croft
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Reasoning about similarity queries in text retrieval tasks
In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu
ADCS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
On the Effectiveness of Relevance Profiling
Relevance profiling is a general process for withindocument retrieval. Given a query, a profile of retrieval status values is computed by sliding a fixed sized window across a doc...
David J. Harper, David Lee