Search snippet evaluation at yandex: lessons learned and future directions

  • Authors:
  • Denis Savenkov;Pavel Braslavski;Mikhail Lebedev

  • Affiliations:
  • Yandex, Moscow;Yandex, Moscow;Yandex, Moscow

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This papers surveys different approaches to evaluation of web search summaries and describes experiments conducted at Yandex. We hypothesize that the complex task of snippet evaluation is best solved with a range of different methods. Automation of evaluation based on available manual assessments and clickthrough analysis is a promising direction.