Measuring the utility of search engine result pages: an information foraging based measure

L Azzopardi, P Thomas, N Craswell - The 41st International ACM SIGIR …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Web Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) are complex responses to queries, containing
many heterogeneous result elements (web results, advertisements, and specialised" …

Taking search to task

C Shah, R White, P Thomas, B Mitra, S Sarkar… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The importance of tasks in information retrieval (IR) has been long argued for, addressed in
different ways, often ignored, and frequently revisited. For decades, scholars made a case …

An axiomatic analysis of diversity evaluation metrics: Introducing the rank-biased utility metric

E Amigó, D Spina, J Carrillo-de-Albornoz - The 41st international ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Many evaluation metrics have been defined to evaluate the effectiveness ad-hoc retrieval
and search result diversification systems. However, it is often unclear which evaluation …

Offline evaluation by maximum similarity to an ideal ranking

CLA Clarke, MD Smucker, A Vtyurina - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
NDCG and similar measures remain standard for the offline evaluation of search,
recommendation, question answering and similar systems. These measures require …

Evaluation in contextual information retrieval: Foundations and recent advances within the challenges of context dynamicity and data privacy

L Tamine, M Daoud - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
Context such as the user's search history, demographics, devices, and surroundings, has
become prevalent in various domains of information seeking and retrieval such as mobile …

Investigating cognitive effects in session-level search user satisfaction

M Liu, J Mao, Y Liu, M Zhang, S Ma - Proceedings of the 25th acm sigkdd …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
User satisfaction is an important variable in Web search evaluation studies and has received
more and more attention in recent years. Many studies regard user satisfaction as the …

[PDF][PDF] TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain Track Overview.

GH Yang, I Soboroff - TREC, 2016 - trec.nist.gov
Search tasks for professional searchers, such as law enforcement agencies, police officers,
and patent examiners, are often more complex than open domain Web search tasks. When …

Preference-based offline evaluation

CLA Clarke, F Diaz, N Arabzadeh - … on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A core step in production model research and development involves the offline evaluation of
a system before production deployment. Traditional offline evaluation of search …

Cascade or recency: Constructing better evaluation metrics for session search

F Zhang, J Mao, Y Liu, W Ma, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recently session search evaluation has been paid more attention as a realistic search
scenario usually involves multiple queries and interactions between users and systems …

On the impact of domain expertise on query formulation, relevance assessment and retrieval performance in clinical settings

L Tamine, C Chouquet - Information Processing & Management, 2017 - Elsevier
The large volumes of medical information available on the web may provide answers for a
wide range of users attempting to solve health-related problems. While experts generally …