Cluster-based language models for distributed retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies
VLDB '95 Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
User performance versus precision measures for simple search tasks
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluation by comparing result sets in context
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Server selection methods in personal metasearch: a comparative empirical study
Information Retrieval
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
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Many current evaluation techniques for information retrieval, such as test collections and simulations, are difficult to apply in situations where queries and preferred results are context-dependent. This is particularly true in personal metasearch applications, which provide a person with unified search access to all their usual online sources. A recently-proposed technique, based on presenting two or more search results sets in a single comparison interface, offers an alternative. We have embedded this technique in a working personal metasearch tool which we have distributed to volunteers. Initial experiments with server selection suggest that the technique is accepted by users, can operate over diverse and unarticulated contexts, and that the data it provides can provide a useful comparison to that from test collections. Further experimentation with the technique is continuing.