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 ...
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...
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...
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). ...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong, Diane Kelly, Lei...
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...