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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Hypothesis testing with incomplete relevance judgments
Information retrieval experimentation generally proceeds in a cycle of development, evaluation, and hypothesis testing. Ideally, the evaluation and testing phases should be short ...
Ben Carterette, Mark D. Smucker
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A statistical method for system evaluation using incomplete judgments
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Emine Yilmaz
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Case for Automatic System Evaluation
Ranking a set retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al. [13]. Over the years, a numb...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Leif Azzopardi, Fr...