Gerard Salton,
The State of Retrieval System Evaluation.
Tech. Rep. 91-1206, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7501, May 1991.
Gerard Salton,
The State of Retrieval System Evaluation.
Tech. Rep. 91-1206, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7501, May 1991.
Substantial misgivings have been voiced over the years about the methodologies used to evaluate information retrieval procedures, and about the credibility of many of the available test results. In this note, an attempt is made to review the state of retrieval evaluation and to separate certain misgivings about the design of retrieval tests from conclusions that can legitimately be drawn from the evaluation results.