Evaluation of IR Systems

This article proposes evaluation methods based on the use of nondichotomous relevance judgements in IR experiments. It is argued that evaluation methods should credit IR methods for their ability to retrieve highly relevant documents. This is desirable ...

Modern large retrieval environments tend to overwhelm their users by their large output. Since all documents are not of equal relevance to their users, highly relevant documents should be identified and ranked first for presentation. In order to develop ...

Goal of conferences like TREC, TIPSTER, NTCIR, CLEF is to judge the performance of different algorithms. Most of these conferences have tracks that deal with new and innovative information retrieval problems, but none has tackled to work with Urdu data, ...