Researchers investigating personalization techniques for Web Information Retrieval face a challenge; that the data required to perform evaluations, namely query logs and clickthro...
—The main concern of the Internet user-base has shifted from what kind of information are available to how to find the desired information on the Internet thanks to the explosiv...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...
Accurate estimation of information retrieval evaluation metrics such as average precision require large sets of relevance judgments. Building sets large enough for evaluation of r...