SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
Accurate topical categorization of user queries allows for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and revenue potential in general-purpose web search systems. Such categorization be...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
Historians and scholars can better understand historic events by studying the geographic and chronological activity of individuals who witnessed them. A lack of adequate tools to ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
Song and Bruza [6] introduce a framework for Information Retrieval(IR) based on Gardenfor’s three tiered cognitive model; Conceptual Spaces[4]. They instantiate a conceptual spa...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
We propose a simple method for converting many standard measures of retrieval performance into metasearch algorithms. Our focus is both on the analysis of retrieval measures thems...