Improved query performance prediction using standard deviation

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1089-1090

  Cummins, Ronan ^a   Jose, Joemon M ^a   O'Riordan, Colm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Query performance prediction

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICS;

QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; VARIABLE LENGTH;

FORECASTING;

EID: 80052118145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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