Viewing morphology as an inference process
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Relevance based language models
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Model-based feedback in the language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using temporal profiles of queries for precision prediction
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Parsimonious language models for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On ranking the effectiveness of searches
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query performance prediction in web search environments
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query hardness estimation using Jensen-Shannon divergence among multiple scoring functions
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
Estimating query performance using class predictions
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Image tag clarity: in search of visual-representative tags for social images
WSM '09 Proceedings of the first SIGMM workshop on Social media
A study of selective collection enrichment for enterprise search
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
A generative blog post retrieval model that uses query expansion based on external collections
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Weighted Rank Correlation in Information Retrieval Evaluation
AIRS '09 Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium on Information Retrieval Technology
Using statistical decision theory and relevance models for query-performance prediction
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploring reductions for long web queries
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using query context models to construct topical search engines
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
A comparison of user and system query performance predictions
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Quantifying tag representativeness of visual content of social images
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Exploiting noisy visual concept detection to improve spoken content based video retrieval
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Standard deviation as a query hardness estimator
SPIRE'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
Predicting query performance using query, result, and user interaction features
RIAO '10 Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
Learning to judge image search results
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Predicting query performance via classification
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Exploiting result consistency to select query expansions for spoken content retrieval
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Oracle in Image Search: A Content-Based Approach to Performance Prediction
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Random selection assisted long web search query optimization
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
Query performance prediction based on ranking list dispersion
FDIA'09 Proceedings of the Third BCS-IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Query difficulty estimation for image retrieval
Neurocomputing
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query performance prediction for IR
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Predicting query performance for fusion-based retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Back to the roots: a probabilistic framework for query-performance prediction
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query-performance prediction and cluster ranking: two sides of the same coin
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Using document-quality measures to predict web-search effectiveness
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Toward self-correcting search engines: using underperforming queries to improve search
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Estimating query representativeness for query-performance prediction
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Document Score Distribution Models for Query Performance Inference and Prediction
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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Query performance prediction aims to predict whether a query will have a high average precision given retrieval from a particular collection, or low average precision. An accurate estimator of the quality of search engine results can allow the search engine to decide to which queries to apply query expansion, for which queries to suggest alternative search terms, to adjust the sponsored results, or to return results from specialized collections. In this paper we present an evaluation of state of the art query prediction algorithms, both post-retrieval and pre-retrieval and we analyze their sensitivity towards the retrieval algorithm. We evaluate query difficulty predictors over three widely different collections and query sets and present an analysis of why prediction algorithms perform significantly worse on Web data. Finally we introduce Improved Clarity, and demonstrate that it outperforms state-of-the-art predictors on three standard collections, including two large Web collections.