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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 8 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 8 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
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval
The effects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speec...
Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Ka...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System
Cross language information retrieval is a field of study that has received significant research attention, resulting in systems that despite the errors of automatic translation (f...
Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, W...
AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Effective Time Ratio: A Measure for Web Search Engines with Document Snippets
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
Jing He, Baihan Shu, Xiaoming Li, Hongfei Yan