This paper is concerned with the evaluation of distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval systems. A new measure is introduced that compares results of a distributed retrie...
Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Hein...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Abstract— Some of the established approaches to evaluating text clustering algorithms for information retrieval show theoretical flaws. In this paper, we analyze these flaws an...