Estimating retrieval effectiveness using rank distributions

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1425-1426

  Vinay, Vishwa ^a   Milic Frayling, Natasa ^a   Cox, Ingemar ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Measurement; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DOCUMENT SCORING; EXPERIMENTATION; GAUSSIAN RANDOM VARIABLE; RELEVANCE JUDGMENT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS;

ESTIMATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349243699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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