Although Web search engines have become information gateways to the Internet, for queries containing technical terms, search results often contain pages that are difficult to be ...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
The amount of multimedia content available online constantly increases, and this leads to problems for users who search for content or similar communities. Users in Flickr often s...
Radu Andrei Negoescu, Brett Adams, Dinh Q. Phung, ...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
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...