Efficiency/effectiveness trade-offs in query processing (from theory into practice workshop, 1998 SIGIR conf.)

A particular variant of Okapi [Robertson et al. 1994] relevance scoring implemented in PADRE [HaWking et al. 1997] achieved best overall average precision in the Long-Topic Adhoc category of the 1997 TREC conference. [Voorhees and Harman 1997] Here, this particular implementation is used as the starting point for a study of the efficiency/effectiveness trade-offs inherent in a number of optimisation techniques, listed in Section 4.