System scoring using partial prior information

Sri Devi Ravana; Laurence A. Park; Alistair Moffat

doi:10.1145/1571941.1572129

System scoring using partial prior information

Sri Devi Ravana, Laurence A. Park, Alistair Moffat

University of Melbourne

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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Abstract

We introduce smoothing of retrieval effectiveness scores, which balances results from prior incomplete query sets against limited additional complete information, in order to obtain more refined system orderings than would be possible on the new queries alone.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009
Pages	788-789
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572129
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: 19 Jul 2009 → 23 Jul 2009

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

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Conference	32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston, MA
Period	19/07/09 → 23/07/09

Keywords

Partial information
Score aggregation
Smoothing
System ordering

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Ravana, S. D., Park, L. A., & Moffat, A. (2009). System scoring using partial prior information. In Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009 (pp. 788-789). (Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009). https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572129

Ravana, Sri Devi ; Park, Laurence A. ; Moffat, Alistair. / System scoring using partial prior information. Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009. 2009. pp. 788-789 (Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009).

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Ravana, SD, Park, LA & Moffat, A 2009, System scoring using partial prior information. in Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009. Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, pp. 788-789, 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, United States, 19/07/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572129

System scoring using partial prior information. / Ravana, Sri Devi; Park, Laurence A.; Moffat, Alistair.
Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009. 2009. p. 788-789 (Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009).

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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Ravana SD, Park LA, Moffat A. System scoring using partial prior information. In Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009. 2009. p. 788-789. (Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009). doi: 10.1145/1571941.1572129

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