No.020 Whole-Session Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval Systems

Overview of this workshop? (please click)

Potential outcome(s) of the meeting:

• Framework(s) for evaluation of system support for searchers over a single search sessions
• Simulation of search sessions, or at least criteria for such, and
• Definitions/measures of search task successs

To accompolish these targets, we plan the workshop heavily depending on the in-depth discussion among the participants followed by the homeworks by every participants and? small number of “Food for Thought” talks.

Links to the Related Activities:

• Dugstuhl seminar on IIR (2009)
• ACM SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Simulation of Interaction: AutomatedEvaluation of Interactive IR (PDF)
• TREC? Session Tracks

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