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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Translating relevance scores to probabilities for contextual advertising
Information retrieval systems conventionally assess document relevance using the bag of words model. Consequently, relevance scores of documents retrieved for different queries a...
Deepak Agarwal, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Hall, ...
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 5 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
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Faster top-k document retrieval using block-max indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Dissecting complex transcriptional responses using pathway-level scores based on prior information
Background: The genomewide pattern of changes in mRNA expression measured using DNA microarrays is typically a complex superposition of the response of multiple regulatory pathway...
Harmen J. Bussemaker, Lucas D. Ward, André ...