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SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Back to the Roots: Mean-Variance Analysis of Relevance Estimations
Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
IR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days 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
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro