Relevance judgments between TREC and Non-TREC assessors

This paper investigates the agreement of relevance assessments between official TREC judgments and those generated from an interactive IR experiment. Results show that 63% of documents judged relevant by our users matched official TREC judgments. Several factors contributed to differences in the agreements: the number of retrieved relevant documents; the number of relevant documents judged; system effectiveness per topic and the ranking of relevant documents. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.0 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: General General Terms: Measurement, Human factors

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough
• Keywords: Information Technology, Official Trec Judgments, Relevance Assessments, Relevant Documents, SIGIR 2008