A study of a gain based approach for query aspects in recall oriented tasks

GM Di Nunzio, G Faggioli - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Evidence-based healthcare integrates the best research evidence with clinical expertise in
order to make decisions based on the best practices available. In this context, the task of …

Information retrieval with verbose queries

M Gupta, M Bendersky - Proceedings of the 38th International ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Recently, the focus of many novel search applications shifted from short keyword queries to
verbose natural language queries. Examples include question answering systems and …

Information needs, queries, and query performance prediction

O Zendel, A Shtok, F Raiber, O Kurland… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The query performance prediction (QPP) task is to estimate the effectiveness of a search
performed in response to a query with no relevance judgments. Existing QPP methods do …

Toward whole-session relevance: Exploring intrinsic diversity in web search

K Raman, PN Bennett… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Current research on web search has focused on optimizing and evaluating single queries.
However, a significant fraction of user queries are part of more complex tasks [20] which …

Automatic boolean query suggestion for professional search

Y Kim, J Seo, WB Croft - Proceedings of the 34th international ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In professional search environments, such as patent search or legal search, search tasks
have unique characteristics: 1) users interactively issue several queries for a topic, and 2) …

LambdaMerge: merging the results of query reformulations

D Sheldon, M Shokouhi, M Szummer… - Proceedings of the fourth …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Search engines can automatically reformulate user queries in a variety of ways, often
leading to multiple queries that are candidates to replace the original. However, selecting a …

Predicting query quality for applications of text retrieval to software engineering tasks

C Mills, G Bavota, S Haiduc, R Oliveto… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Context: Since the mid-2000s, numerous recommendation systems based on text retrieval
(TR) have been proposed to support software engineering (SE) tasks such as concept …

Query performance prediction using reference lists

A Shtok, O Kurland, D Carmel - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The task of query performance prediction is to estimate the effectiveness of search
performed in response to a query when no relevance judgments are available. We present a …

Learning to rank query suggestions for adhoc and diversity search

RLT Santos, C Macdonald, I Ounis - Information Retrieval, 2013 - Springer
Query suggestions have become pervasive in modern web search, as a mechanism to
guide users towards a better representation of their information need. In this article, we …

Document score distribution models for query performance inference and prediction

R Cummins - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2014 - dl.acm.org
Modelling the distribution of document scores returned from an information retrieval (IR)
system in response to a query is of both theoretical and practical importance. One of the …