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IPM
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Further reflections on TREC
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....
Karen Sparck Jones
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
The Gauss-Tree: Efficient Object Identification in Databases of Probabilistic Feature Vectors
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
Alexey Pryakhin, Christian Böhm, Matthias Sch...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A signal-to-noise approach to score normalization
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Generalizing from relevance feedback using named entity wildcards
Traditional adaptive filtering systems learn the user’s interests in a rather simple way – words from relevant documents are favored in the query model, while words from irre...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang