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01.12.2009 | Reliable Information Access Workshop

Overview of the Reliable Information Access Workshop

verfasst von: Donna Harman, Chris Buckley

Erschienen in: Discover Computing | Ausgabe 6/2009

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Abstract

The Reliable Information Access (RIA) Workshop was held in the summer of 2003, with a goal of improved understanding of information retrieval systems, in particular with regard to the variability of retrieval performance across topics. The workshop ran massive cross-system failure analysis on 45 of the TREC topics and also performed cross-system experiments on pseudo-relevance feedback. This paper presents an overview of that workshop, along with some preliminary conclusions from these experiments. Even if this workshop was held 6 years ago, the issues of improving system performance across all topics is still critical to the field and this paper, along with the others in this issue, are the first widely published full papers for the workshop.

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Metadaten
Titel
Overview of the Reliable Information Access Workshop
verfasst von
Donna Harman
Chris Buckley
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2009
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Discover Computing / Ausgabe 6/2009
Print ISSN: 2948-2984
Elektronische ISSN: 2948-2992
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-009-9101-4

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