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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Evaluating web search using task completion time
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
Ya Xu, David Mease
KDD
2008
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
Structured metric learning for high dimensional problems
The success of popular algorithms such as k-means clustering or nearest neighbor searches depend on the assumption that the underlying distance functions reflect domain-specific n...
Jason V. Davis, Inderjit S. Dhillon
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
142views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, Dietrich Klakow
CLEF
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Diversity in Photo Retrieval: Overview of the ImageCLEFPhoto Task 2009
The ImageCLEF Photo Retrieval Task 2009 focused on image retrieval and diversity. A new collection was utilised in this task consisting of approximately half a million images with...
Monica Lestari Paramita, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clou...
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Information credibility on twitter
We analyze the information credibility of news propagated through Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Previous research has shown that most of the messages posted on Twitter...
Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Barbara Poblete