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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Answer typing for information retrieval
Answer typing is commonly thought of as finding appropriate responses to given questions. We extend the notion of answer typing to information retrieval to ensure results contain...
Christopher Pinchak, Davood Rafiei, Dekang Lin
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic ranking for relational databases based on correlations
This paper proposes a ranking method to exploit statistical correlations among pairs of attribute values in relational databases. For a given query, the correlations of the query ...
Jaehui Park, Sang-goo Lee
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Question Answering System based on Information Retrieval and Validation
Abstract. Our participation at ResPubliQA 2010 was based on applying an Information Retrieval (IR) engine of high performance and a validation step for removing incorrect answers. ...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez...