A case for improved evaluation of query difficulty prediction

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 640-641

  Scholer, Falk ^a   Garcia, Steven ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Query difficulty prediction

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL SYSTEM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH SYSTEM; STANDARD EVALUATIONS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 72449183657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1572055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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