Hypothesis testing with incomplete relevance judgments.

Ben Carterette Mark D. Smucker

Published in: CIKM (2007)

Keyphrases

hypothesis testing
relevance judgments
test collection
average precision
web search engines
relevance feedback
retrieval effectiveness
learning to rank

retrieval systems
user feedback
likelihood ratio
ranking functions
relevant documents
evaluation measures
statistical tests
evaluation metrics

information retrieval
hypothesis tests
search engine
retrieval model
document collections
supervised learning
loss function
user interaction

query expansion
language model
upper bound
lower bound
reinforcement learning
multimedia
test statistic