Advances on the development of evaluation measures

  • Authors:
  • Ben Carterette;Evangelos Kanoulas;Emine Yilmaz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA;University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The goal of the tutorial is to provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in the development of information retrieval evaluation measures and discuss the current challenges in the area. A number of topics are covered, including background in traditional evaluation paradigm and traditional evaluation measures, evaluation measures based on user models, advanced models of user interaction with search engines, measures based on these models, measures for novelty and diversity, and session-based measures.