Travelled to:
1 × Australia
1 × Canada
1 × China
1 × Ireland
1 × Singapore
2 × The Netherlands
6 × USA
Collaborated with:
A.Moffat J.Zobel D.W.Oard T.G.Armstrong P.Chandar B.Carterette M.Bagdouri D.D.Lewis J.Pickens L.A.F.Park G.K.Jayasinghe M.Sanderson J.S.Culpepper F.Scholer N.Gao B.Toth M.Desamito B.Hedin T.Sakai L.S.Dharmasena D.Kelly W.Wu H.S.Lee
Talks about:
retriev (7) assessor (5) system (5) evalu (4) comparison (3) effect (3) disagr (3) relev (3) judgment (2) classifi (2)
Person: William Webber
DBLP: Webber:William
Contributed to:
Wrote 20 papers:
- ECIR-2014-GaoWO #comparison #using
- Reducing Reliance on Relevance Judgments for System Comparison by Using Expectation-Maximization (NG, WW, DWO), pp. 1–12.
- SIGIR-2014-JayasingheWSC
- Extending test collection pools without manual runs (GKJ, WW, MS, JSC), pp. 915–918.
- SIGIR-2014-JayasingheWSDC #nondeterminism #retrieval
- Evaluating non-deterministic retrieval systems (GKJ, WW, MS, LSD, JSC), pp. 911–914.
- CIKM-2013-BagdouriWLO #classification #towards
- Towards minimizing the annotation cost of certified text classification (MB, WW, DDL, DWO), pp. 989–998.
- SIGIR-2013-ChandarWC #documentation #predict
- Document features predicting assessor disagreement (PC, WW, BC), pp. 745–748.
- SIGIR-2013-ScholerKWLW #assessment
- The effect of threshold priming and need for cognition on relevance calibration and assessment (FS, DK, WCW, HSL, WW), pp. 623–632.
- SIGIR-2013-WebberBLO #classification #effectiveness #evaluation #testing
- Sequential testing in classifier evaluation yields biased estimates of effectiveness (WW, MB, DDL, DWO), pp. 933–936.
- SIGIR-2013-WebberP #classification
- Assessor disagreement and text classifier accuracy (WW, JP), pp. 929–932.
- CIKM-2012-WebberCC #retrieval
- Alternative assessor disagreement and retrieval depth (WW, PC, BC), pp. 125–134.
- SIGIR-2012-WebberTD
- Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement (WW, BT, MD), pp. 1053–1054.
- CIKM-2010-WebberOSH #evaluation #fault
- Assessor error in stratified evaluation (WW, DWO, FS, BH), pp. 539–548.
- CIKM-2009-ArmstrongMWZ #ad hoc #retrieval
- Improvements that don’t add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998 (TGA, AM, WW, JZ), pp. 601–610.
- SIGIR-2009-ArmstrongMWZ #ad hoc #question #retrieval
- Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994? (TGA, AM, WW, JZ), pp. 692–693.
- SIGIR-2009-ArmstrongMWZ09a #information retrieval #named #online
- EvaluatIR: an online tool for evaluating and comparing IR systems (TGA, AM, WW, JZ), p. 833.
- SIGIR-2009-WebberP #bias
- Score adjustment for correction of pooling bias (WW, LAFP), pp. 444–451.
- CIKM-2008-WebberMZ #retrieval #statistics
- Statistical power in retrieval experimentation (WW, AM, JZ), pp. 571–580.
- SIGIR-2008-WebberMZ #comparison #retrieval #standard
- Score standardization for inter-collection comparison of retrieval systems (WW, AM, JZ), pp. 51–58.
- SIGIR-2008-WebberMZS
- Precision-at-ten considered redundant (WW, AM, JZ, TS), pp. 695–696.
- SIGIR-2007-MoffatWZ
- Strategic system comparisons via targeted relevance judgments (AM, WW, JZ), pp. 375–382.
- SIGIR-2006-MoffatWZ #parallel #retrieval
- Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval (AM, WW, JZ), pp. 348–355.