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Search Publications by: Darrin L. Dimmick (Fed)

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Bias and the Limits of Pooling for Large Collections

July 17, 2007
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C E. Buckley, Darrin L. Dimmick, Ian Soboroff, Ellen M. Voorhees
Modern retrieval test collections are built through a process called pooling in which only a sample of the entire document set is judged for each topic. The idea behind pooling is to find enough relevant documents such that when unjudged documents are
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