“Sources of information on specific subjects”
Journal of Information Science - Lecture notes in computer science, No. 207
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Information Retrieval: Computational and Theoretical Aspects
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Query association surrogates for Web search: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Retrieving lightly annotated images using image similarities
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The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
Proceedings of the 28th 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
Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Bias and the limits of pooling
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Building simulated queries for known-item topics: an analysis using six european languages
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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
Examining the information retrieval process from an inductive perspective
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Validating query simulators: an experiment using commercial searches and purchases
CLEF'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation: cross-language evaluation forum
The economics in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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Typically, Information Retrieval evaluation focuses on measuring the performance of the system's ability at retrieving relevant information, and not the query's ability. However, the effectiveness of a retrieval system is strongly influenced by the quality of the query submitted. In this paper, the effectiveness and effort of querying is empirically examined in the context of the Principle of Least Effort, Zipf's Law and the Law of Diminishing Returns. This query focused investigation leads to a number of novel findings which should prove useful in the development of future retrieval methods and evaluation techniques. While, also motivating further research into query side evaluation.