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CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Tracking changes in user interests with a few relevance judgments
Keeping track of changes in user interests from a document stream with a few relevance judgments is not an easy task. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel method that integr...
Dwi H. Widyantoro, Thomas R. Ioerger, John Yen
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Rabia Nuray, Fazli Can
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments
Soboroff, Nicholas and Cahan recently proposed a method for evaluating the performance of retrieval systems without relevance judgments. They demonstrated that the system evaluat...
Javed A. Aslam, Robert Savell
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Forming test collections with no system pooling
Forming test collection relevance judgments from the pooled output of multiple retrieval systems has become the standard process for creating resources such as the TREC, CLEF, and...
Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Accurately interpreting clickthrough data as implicit feedback
This paper examines the reliability of implicit feedback generated from clickthrough data in WWW search. Analyzing the users’ decision process using eyetracking and comparing im...
Thorsten Joachims, Laura A. Granka, Bing Pan, Hele...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Inferring document relevance via average precision
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using a limited number of relevance judgments. Recent work has demonstrated that one can accurately estimate average precis...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Combining LVCSR and vocabulary-independent ranked utterance retrieval for robust speech search
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
If I Had a Million Queries
As document collections grow larger, the information needs and relevance judgments in a test collection must be well-chosen within a limited budget to give the most reliable and ro...
Ben Carterette, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Using Multiple Query Aspects to Build Test Collections without Human Relevance Judgments
Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
Miles Efron