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AIRWEB
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links
The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
Xiaoguang Qi, Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison
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
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The anatomy of an ad: structured indexing and retrieval for sponsored search
The core task of sponsored search is to retrieve relevant ads for the user’s query. Ads can be retrieved either by exact match, when their bid term is identical to the query, or...
Michael Bendersky, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josi...
CIVR
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Jointly optimising relevance and diversity in image retrieval
In this paper we present a method to jointly optimise the relevance and the diversity of the results in image retrieval. Without considering diversity, image retrieval systems oft...
Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Gass, Philippe Dreuw, Her...