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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Learning more powerful test statistics for click-based retrieval evaluation
Interleaving experiments are an attractive methodology for evaluating retrieval functions through implicit feedback. Designed as a blind and unbiased test for eliciting a preferen...
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, T...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
BIBE
2007
IEEE
169views Bioinformatics» more  BIBE 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...
Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
KDD
2002
ACM
169views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 12 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims