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AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Effective Time Ratio: A Measure for Web Search Engines with Document Snippets
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
Jing He, Baihan Shu, Xiaoming Li, Hongfei Yan
BTW
2009
Springer
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14 years 1 days ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: 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...
Thomas Mandl
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam

Publication
104views
14 years 4 months ago
Finding My Needle in the Haystack: Effective Personalized Re-ranking of Search Results in Prospector
Abstract. This paper provides an overview of Prospector, a personalized Internet meta-search engine, which utilizes a combination of ontological information, ratings-based models o...
Florian König, Lex van Velsen, Alexandros Par...