Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
— As the academic world moves away from physical journals and proceedings towards online document repositories, the ability to efficiently locate work of interest among the torr...
Jayanthkumar Kannan, Beverly Yang, Scott Shenker, ...
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
The proliferation of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange in diverse, next-generation Web applications has created an emphatic need for effective XML data-integr...
Wenfei Fan, Minos N. Garofalakis, Ming Xiong, Xibe...