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How Discriminative Are Your Qrels? How To Study the Statistical Significance of Document Adjudication Methods
David Otero, Javier Parapar, Nicola Ferro
Creating test collections for offline retrieval evaluation requires human effort to judge documents' relevance. This expensive activity motivated much work in developing methods fo…
Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 23031: Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education
Christine Bauer, Ben Carterette, Nicola Ferro +1
This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 23031 ``Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education'', which brought together…
FullBrain: a Social E-learning Platform
Mirko Biasini, Vittorio Carmignani, Nicola Ferro +3
We present FullBrain, a social e-learning platform where students share and track their knowledge. FullBrain users can post notes, ask questions and share learning resources in ded…
Corrected Evaluation Results of the NTCIR WWW-2, WWW-3, and WWW-4 English Subtasks
Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao, Maria Maistro +7
Unfortunately, the official English (sub)task results reported in the NTCIR-14 WWW-2, NTCIR-15 WWW-3, and NTCIR-16 WWW-4 overview papers are incorrect due to noise in the official…
Towards Feature Selection for Ranking and Classification Exploiting Quantum Annealers
Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Fabio Moroni, Riccardo Nembrini +3
Feature selection is a common step in many ranking, classification, or prediction tasks and serves many purposes. By removing redundant or noisy features, the accuracy of ranking o…
repro_eval: A Python Interface to Reproducibility Measures of System-oriented IR Experiments
Timo Breuer, Nicola Ferro, Maria Maistro +1
In this work we introduce repro_eval - a tool for reactive reproducibility studies of system-oriented information retrieval (IR) experiments. The corresponding Python package provi…