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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Coherence-Based Measures to Predict Query Difficulty
Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
Jiyin He, Martha Larson, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking
Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Effects of Aligned Corpus Quality and Size in Corpus-Based CLIR
Aligned corpora are often-used resources in CLIR systems. The three qualities of translation corpora that most dramatically affect the performance of a corpus-based CLIR system are...
Tuomas Talvensaari
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Associating People and Documents
Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions
IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...
Kalervo Järvelin, Susan L. Price, Lois M. L. ...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Robust Query-Specific Pseudo Feedback Document Selection for Query Expansion
In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. ...
Qiang Huang, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most popular information sources on the Web. The free encyclopedia is densely linked. The link structure in Wikipedia differs from the Web at large: interna...
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Here or There
Abstract. Information retrieval systems have traditionally been evaluated over absolute judgments of relevance: each document is judged for relevance on its own, independent of oth...
Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chi...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Clicks as Implicit Judgments: Expectations Versus Observations
Abstract. Clickthrough data has been the subject of increasing popularity as an implicit indicator of user feedback. Previous analysis has suggested that user click behaviour is su...
Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Bodo Billerbeck, And...