University of Padua at TREC 2013: Federated Web Search Track.
Emanuele Di Buccio, Ivano Masiero, Massimo Melucci · Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) · 2013
This paper reports on the participation of the University of Padua to the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search track. The objective was the experimental investigation in Federated Web Search setting of TWF·IRF, which is a recursive weighting scheme for resource selection. The experimental results show that the TWF component, that is peculiar of this scheme, is sufficient to obtain an effective search engine ranking in terms of NDCG@20 when compared with the baseline and the runs of other track participants.