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BTW
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Thomas Mandl
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes in information retrieval
This paper presents an evaluation of evolved term-weighting schemes on short, medium and long TREC queries. A previously evolved global (collection-wide) term-weighting scheme is ...
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
Björn Þór Jónsson, Michae...
DEXA
2007
Springer
91views Database» more  DEXA 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
An Evaluation of a Cluster-Based Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
Abstract. In this paper we provide a full-scale evaluation of a cluster-based architecture for P2P IR, focusing on retrieval effectiveness. We observe that there is a significant ...
Iraklis A. Klampanos, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam