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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2005
ACM
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2005
ACM
Song and Bruza [6] introduce a framework for Information Retrieval(IR) based on Gardenfor’s three tiered cognitive model; Conceptual Spaces[4]. They instantiate a conceptual spa...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2005
ACM
In Information Retrieval (IR), the Dirichlet Priors have been applied to the smoothing technique of the language modeling approach. In this paper, we apply the Dirichlet Priors to...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2005
ACM
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2005
ACM
Context influences the search process, but to date research has not definitively identified which aspects of context are the most influential for information retrieval, and thus a...