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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
GIR Experimentation
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) community has generally accepted the thesis that both thematic and geographic aspect of documents may be useful for GIR. This paper describe...
Geoffrey Andogah
IRAL
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Temporal ranking for fresh information retrieval
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
Nobuyoshi Sato, Minoru Uehara, Yoshifumi Sakai
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
174views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Aggregation and manipulation in prediction markets: effects of trading mechanism and information distribution
We conduct laboratory experiments on variants of market scoring rule prediction markets, under different information distribution patterns, in order to evaluate the efficiency an...
Lian Jian, Rahul Sami
DEXA
2009
Springer
176views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing Document Retrievability in Patent Retrieval Settings
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber