Why do successful search systems fail for some topics

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 872-877

  Savoy, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Failure analysis; Robust evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; DATA STRUCTURES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MEAN AVERAGE PRECISION (MAP); PROBABILISTIC MODELS; ROBUST EVALUATION; SEARCH SYSTEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 35248875650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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