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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
PRES: a score metric for evaluating recall-oriented information retrieval applications
Information retrieval (IR) evaluation scores are generally designed to measure the effectiveness with which relevant documents are identified and retrieved. Many scores have been ...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones
TREC
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval Track
The robust retrieval track is a new track in TREC 2003. The goal of the track is to improve the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. In add...
Ellen M. Voorhees
WCRE
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Examining the Effects of Global Data Usage on Software Maintainability
As the useful life expectancy of software continues to increase, the task of maintaining the source code has become the dominant phase of the software life-cycle. In order to impr...
Jason W. A. Selby, Fraser P. Ruffell, Mark Giesbre...
WSDM
2010
ACM
173views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Measuring the Reusability of Test Collections
While test collection construction is a time-consuming and expensive process, the true cost is amortized by reusing the collection over hundreds or thousands of experiments. Some ...
Ben Carterette, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifov...
ITS
2004
Springer
115views Multimedia» more  ITS 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Tutorial Dialogue System for Self-Explanation
Previous research has shown that self-explanation can be supported effectively in an intelligent tutoring system by simple means such as menus. We now focus on the hypothesis that ...
Vincent Aleven, Amy Ogan, Octav Popescu, Cristen T...