Error Analysis of Difficult Trec Topics

Xiao Hu, Sindhura Bandhakavi, Chengxiang Zhai

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)407-408
Number of pages2
JournalSIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
Issue numberSPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
EventProceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2003 - Toronto, Ont., Canada
Duration: Jul 28 2003Aug 1 2003

Keywords

  • Distraction
  • Dominance
  • Error analysis
  • Hard topics
  • Measures
  • Sub-collection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Management Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture

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