Abstract
Given the experimental nature of information retrieval, progress critically depends on analyzing the errors made by existing retrieval approaches and understanding their limitations. Our research explores various hypothesized reasons for hard topics in TREC-8 ad hoc task, and shows that the bad performance is partially due to the existence of highly distracting sub-collections that can dominate the overall performance.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 407-408 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) |
Issue number | SPEC. ISS. |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2003 |
Event | Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2003 - Toronto, Ont., Canada Duration: Jul 28 2003 → Aug 1 2003 |
Keywords
- Distraction
- Dominance
- Error analysis
- Hard topics
- Measures
- Sub-collection
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Hardware and Architecture