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
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query association surrogates for Web search: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Extended gloss overlaps as a measure of semantic relatedness
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Effective pre-retrieval query performance prediction using similarity and variability evidence
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Using coherence-based measures to predict query difficulty
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A case for improved evaluation of query difficulty prediction
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation
ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Predicting Neighbor Goodness in Collaborative Filtering
FQAS '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Exploiting external knowledge to improve video retrieval
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia information retrieval
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
Learning Aggregation Functions for Expert Search
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
A comparison of user and system query performance predictions
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention: Part II
Improved query performance prediction using standard deviation
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Predicting the performance of recommender systems: an information theoretic approach
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
Applying the user-over-ranking hypothesis to query formulation
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
Candidate document retrieval for web-scale text reuse detection
SPIRE'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
Navigating the user query space
SPIRE'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
Automatic query reformulation with syntactic operators to alleviate search difficulty
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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)
Index ordering by query-independent measures
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Learning from the past: answering new questions with past answers
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Potential good abandonment prediction
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
User evaluation of query quality
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
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
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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The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries can be estimated in advance of, or during the retrieval stage, specific measures can be taken to improve the overall performance of the system. In particular, pre-retrieval predictors predict the query performance before the retrieval step and are thus independent of the ranked list of results; such predictors base their predictions solely on query terms, the collection statistics and possibly external sources such as WordNet. In this poster, 22 pre-retrieval predictors are categorized and assessed on three different TREC test collections.