A retrospective evaluation method for exact-match and best-match queries applying an interactive query performance analyser (2002)
| Venue: | in Crestani, F. et al. (Eds), Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 24th European Colloquium on IR Research |
| Citations: | 2 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sormunen02aretrospective,
author = {Eero Sormunen},
title = {A retrospective evaluation method for exact-match and best-match queries applying an interactive query performance analyser},
booktitle = {in Crestani, F. et al. (Eds), Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 24th European Colloquium on IR Research},
year = {2002},
pages = {334--356}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. A retrospective method for the performance comparison of queries based on different IR models is introduced. The method is based on the interactive optimisation of queries by a group of test searchers using a query performance analyser. The case experiment focused on comparing the maximum effectiveness of Boolean exact-match queries, and structured and unstructured best-match queries. The experiment verified the problems in maintaining precision of Boolean queries at high recall levels. Interesting similarities were also observed between structured and unstructured best-match queries challenging the results of earlier studies.
