Exploring the layers of information retrieval evaluation

✍ Scribed by M.D. Dunlop; C.W. Johnson; J. Reid

• Book ID: 104359440
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 895 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0953-5438
• DOI: 10.1016/s0953-5438(98)00014-9

✦ Synopsis

This special issue presents current work on modelling interactive information retrieval systems and users' interactions with them. This introductory paper analyses the papers in the context of evaluation in information retrieval (IR) by examining the different layers at which IR system use could be evaluated. IR poses the double evaluation problem of evaluating both the underlying system effectiveness and the overall ability of the system to aid users. The papers in this collection look at different issues in combining human-computer interaction (HCI) research with IR research and provide insights into the problems of evaluating the information seeking process. 0 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.