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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using term informativeness for named entity detection
Informal communication (e-mail, bulletin boards) poses a difficult learning environment because traditional grammatical and lexical information are noisy. Other information is nec...
Jason D. M. Rennie, Tommi Jaakkola
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
Mark Sanderson, Justin Zobel
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On the collective classification of email "speech acts"
We consider classification of email messages as to whether or not they contain certain “email acts”, such as a request or a commitment. We show that exploiting the sequential ...
Vitor Rocha de Carvalho, William W. Cohen