System scoring using partial prior information


Sri Devi Ravana
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.

Larence A. F. Park
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.

Alistair Moffat
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.


Status

Proc. 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, July 2009, pages 788-789. Poster presentation.

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.

Full text

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572129