Information retrieval evaluation /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
[2011]
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ;
#19. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for most of the evaluation methodologies in use today. The retrieval community has been extremely fortunate to have such a well-grounded evaluation paradigm during a period when most of the human language technologies were just developing. This lecture has the goal of explaining where these evaluation methodologies came from and how they have continued to adapt to the vastly changed environment in the search engine world today. The lecture starts with a discussion of the early evaluation of information retrieval systems, starting with the Cranfield testing in the early 1960s, continuing with the Lancaster "user" study for MEDLARS, and presenting the various test collection investigations by the SMART project and by groups in Britain. |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (Morgan & Claypool, viewed July 29, 2011). Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 107 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-105). |
| ISBN: | 9781598299724 (electronic bk.) 1598299727 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1947-9468 ; |