Bias-variance decomposition of ir evaluation.

Peng Zhang Dawei Song Jun Wang Yuexian Hou

Published in: SIGIR (2013)

Keyphrases

ir evaluation
bias variance decomposition
test collection
information retrieval
statistical significance
variance reduction
bias variance
trade off
retrieval effectiveness
patent retrieval
base learners
short queries
training data
markov chain
document collections
importance sampling