Keyword

retrieval effectiveness

Description: The degree to which an information retrieval system or searcher successfully finds relevant information for a query.

Primary topic: Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (65%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/retrieval-performance

Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval

1988 · Gerard Salton, Christopher Buckley · Information Processing & Management · 9,759

A vector space model for automatic indexing

1975 · G. Salton, A. Wong, et al. · Communications of the ACM · 7,516

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A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval

1972 · KAREN SPARCK JONES · Journal of Documentation · 4,516

Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data

2002 · Thorsten Joachims · ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · 3,889

A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

2017 · Chengxiang Zhai, John Lafferty · ACM SIGIR Forum · 1,537

Improving retrieval performance by relevance feedback

1990 · Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1,495

The Probability Ranking Principle in Ir

1977 · S.E. ROBERTSON · Journal of Documentation · 1,068

Scatter/Gather: a cluster-based approach to browsing large document collections

1992 · Douglass R. Cutting, David R. Karger, et al. · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 993

The relationship between Recall and Precision

1994 · Michael Buckland, Fredric Gey · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 969

Query Expansion using Lexical-Semantic Relations

1994 · Ellen M. Voorhees · Springer eBooks · 947

TREC: Experiment and evaluation in information retrieval

2007 · José L. Vicedo, Jaime Gómez · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 837

Concept based query expansion

1993 · Yonggang Qiu, Hans-Peter Frei · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 717

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In Google We Trust: Users’ Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance

2007 · Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, et al. · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 713

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An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system

1985 · David C. Blair, M. E. Maron · Communications of the ACM · 656

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Rank-biased precision for measurement of retrieval effectiveness

2008 · Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 620

Features for image retrieval: an experimental comparison

2007 · Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, et al. · Information Retrieval · 585

On the Specification of Term Values in Automatic Indexing

1973 · G. SALTON, C.S. YANG · Journal of Documentation · 585

Analyses of multiple evidence combination

1997 · Joon Ho Lee · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 582

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Improving automatic query expansion

1998 · Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, et al. · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 557

Pivoted document length normalization

1996 · Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, et al. · International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 551

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Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis

2000 · Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 533

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Variations in relevance judgments and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness

2000 · Ellen M. Voorhees · Information Processing & Management · 504

A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval

2004 · Karen Spärck Jones · Journal of Documentation · 501

Boilerplate detection using shallow text features

2010 · Christian Kohlschütter, Peter Fankhauser, et al. · ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) · 476

A Theoretical Basis for the Use of Co‐occurrence Data in Information Retrieval

1977 · C.J. VAN RIJSBERGEN · Journal of Documentation · 472

Works count: 3,913

Citation count: 95,360