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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems
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...
SIGIR
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Architecture for Information Retrieval
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...
Brendon Cahoon, Kathryn S. McKinley
BTW
2009
Springer
118views Database» more  BTW 2009»
13 years 9 months 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
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 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
SMC
2007
IEEE
103views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
A new evaluation measure for information retrieval systems
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...
Martin Mehlitz, Christian Bauckhage, Jér&oc...