Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems: The PROBE Program (Book Review)

Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems

Neste artigo é proposta uma extensa metodologia para avaliar a recuperação da informação interativa. A proposta baseia-se em princípios fundamentais apresentados na literatura de avaliação para definir os objetivos do sistema ou ferramenta a ser avaliado, e inferir as medidas e os critérios de sucesso na consecução dos objetivos. Propõe-se que, ao avaliar uma ferramenta de pesquisa, seja analis...

Personal Filing Systems: Creating Information Retrieval Systems on Microcomputers (Book Review)

Book Review: Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Jian-Yun Nie

Cross-Language Information Retrieval is a compact book introducing a branch of information retrieval that has gained considerable research interest since the dawn of the WorldWideWeb in the mid 1990s. Information retrieval is generally concerned with the problem of finding documents within a large collection that are relevant to a given input query. Whereas the original formulation of IR assume...

Evaluating Geographic Information Retrieval

The processing steps required for geographic information retrieval include many steps that are common to all forms of information retrieval, e.g. stopword filtering, stemming, vocabulary enrichment, understanding Booleans, and fluff removal. Only a few steps, in particular the detection of geographic entities and the assignment of bounding boxes to these, are specific to geographic IR. The pape...

Evaluating Personal Information Retrieval

Evaluation of personal search over an individual’s personal information space on the desktop or elsewhere is problematic for reasons relating both to the personal and private nature of the data and the associated personal information needs of collection owners. Indeed challenges associated with evaluation in this space are recognised as one of the key factors hindering the development of resear...