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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Retrievability: an evaluation measure for higher order information access tasks
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay
IADIS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
A New Performance Evaluation Technique for Web Information Retrieval Systems
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
Fidel Cacheda, Francisco Puentes, Victor Carneiro
ISDA
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluation Measures for Ordinal Regression
—Ordinal regression (OR – also known as ordinal classification) has received increasing attention in recent times, due to its importance in IR applications such as learning to...
Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebast...
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Using titles and category names from editor-driven taxonomies for automatic evaluation
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...