Predicting query performance on the web

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 785-786

  Balasubramanian, Niranjan ^a   Kumaran, Giridhar ^b   Carvalho, Vitor R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance prediction; Query difficulty; Web search

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; LINEAR CORRELATION; ON-LINE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PREDICTION ACCURACY; QUERY DIFFICULTY; QUERY LOGS; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; QUERY REFORMULATION; RANKING ALGORITHM; TIME FEATURES; TIME PERFORMANCE; WEB ENVIRONMENT; WEB SEARCHES;

FORECASTING; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77956036841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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