Predicting query performance by query-drift estimation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5766 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 305-312

  Shtok, Anna ^a   Kurland, Oren ^a   Carmel, David ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Query drift; Query performance prediction; Score distribution

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; PREDICTION METHODS; QUERY DRIFT; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY-PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; SCORE DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TRACKING (POSITION);

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 70350578846     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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