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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The impact of history length on personalized search
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
Yangbo Zhu, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Portfolio theory of information retrieval
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The impact of collection size on relevance and diversity
It has been observed that precision increases with collection size. One explanation could be that the redundancy of information increases, making it easier to find multiple docum...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 1 days ago
The impact of database selection on distributed searching
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...