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WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 6 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, ...
DEBU
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Keyword Search
The prevalence of free text search in web search engines has inspired recent interest in keyword search on relational databases. Whereas relational queries formally specify matchi...
William Webber
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Re-ranking search results using query logs
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
HICSS
2007
IEEE
79views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 3 days ago
User-Based Evaluations of Search Engines: Hygiene Factors and Motivation Factors
In cyberspace, the emergence and increasing importance of search engine prompts numerous evaluation studies in regard to its effectiveness. Based on a user-oriented perspective, t...
Ya-Lan Chuang, Ling-Ling Wu