“Economic Impact Assessment of NIST’s Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Program”

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“…this study estimates that TREC’s existence was responsible for approximately one-third of an improvement of more than 200% in web search products that was observed between 1999 and 2009.”

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SIGIR 2010 Best Paper Nominees

SIGIR has posted best paper nominees.

  • A comparison of general vs personalized affective models for the prediction of topical relevance, I. Arapakis, K. Athanasakos, J. Jose
  • Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs, R. White, J. Huang
  • Caching Search Engine Results over Incremental Indices, F. Junqueira, R. Blanco, E. Bortnikov, R. Lempel, L. Telloli, H. Zaragoza
  • Comparing the Sensitivity of Information Retrieval Metrics, F. Radlinski, N. Craswell
  • Extending Average Precision to Graded Relevance Judgments, S. Robertson, E. Kanoulas, E. Yilmaz
  • Information Based Model for ad hoc information retrieval, S. Clinchant, E. Gaussier
  • Multi-style language model for web scale information retrieval, K. Wang, J. Gao, X. Li
  • Properties of Optimally Weighted Data Fusion in CBMIR, P. Wilkins, A. Smeaton

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