SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by ...
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper a new Query Performance Prediction method is introduced. This method is based on the hypothesis that different score distributions appear for ‘hard’ and ‘easyâ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Numerous studies have examined the ability of query performance prediction methods to estimate a query’s quality for system effectiveness measures (such as average precision). ...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the hypothesis that different score d...