Automatic performance evaluation of Web search engines
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Automatic performance evaluation of Web search engines
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of World Wide Web search engines is costly because of human relevance judgments involved. However, both for business enterprises and people it is important to know the most effective Web search engines, since such search engines help their users find higher number of relevant Web pages with less effort. Furthermore, this information can be used ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Information Processing & Management
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0306-4573
DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4573(03)00040-2