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SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods by Range
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 ...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Lourdes Arau...
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Standard Deviation as a Query Hardness Estimator
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...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Lourdes Arau...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors
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...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Query quality: user ratings and system predictions
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...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Ranking List Dispersion as a Query Performance Predictor
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...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Lourdes Arau...