Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and
This open access book summarizes the first two decades of the NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR). NTCIR is a series of evaluatio
Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for
Provides a comprehensive overview of the topic. It shows how online evaluation is used for controlled experiments, segmenting them into experiment designs that