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Susan Price
Researcher at Portland State University
Publications - 34
Citations - 979
Susan Price is an academic researcher from Portland State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Semantic search & Semantic computing. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 34 publications receiving 941 citations. Previous affiliations of Susan Price include Microsoft & Oregon Health & Science University.
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Discounted cumulated gain based evaluation of multiple-query IR sessions
TL;DR: This work proposes an extension to the Discounted Cumulated Gain metric, the Session-based DCG (sDCG) metric, for evaluation scenarios involving multiple query sessions, graded relevance assessments, and open-ended user effort including decisions to stop searching.
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Assessing thesaurus-based query expansion using the UMLS Metathesaurus.
TL;DR: Thesaurus-based query expansion causes a decline in retrieval performance generally but improves it in specific instances, and further research must focus on identifying instances where performance improves and how it can be exploited by real users.
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Do batch and user evaluations give the same results
William R. Hersh,Andrew Turpin,Susan Price,Benjamin Chan,Dale Kramer,Lynetta Sacherek,Daniel Olson +6 more
TL;DR: The results showed the weighting scheme giving beneficial results in batch studies did not do so with real users, and other factors predictive of instance recall, including number of documents saved by the user, document recall, and number of papers seen by the users were identified.
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Filtering Web pages for quality indicators: an empirical approach to finding high quality consumer health information on the World Wide Web.
Susan Price,William R. Hersh +1 more
TL;DR: A prototype system that responds to a consumer health query by returning a list of Web pages that are ranked according to the likely quality of the page contents, which may facilitate the search for high quality consumer health information on the Web.
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SQL server column store indexes
Per-Ake Larson,Cipri Clinciu,Eric N. Hanson,Artem A. Oks,Susan Price,Srikumar Rangarajan,Aleksandras Surna,Qingqing Zhou +7 more
TL;DR: An overview of the design and implementation of column store indexes including enhancements to query processing and query optimization to take full advantage of the new indexes is given.