Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data
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Banks, D; Over, P; Zhang, NF
Published in: Information Retrieval
January 1, 1999
The paper reviews six recent efforts to better understand performance measurements on information retrieval (IR) systems within the framework of the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC): analysis of variance, cluster analyses, rank correlations, beadplots, multidimensional scaling, and item response analysis. None of this work has yielded any substantial new insights. Prospects that additional work along these lines will yield more interesting results vary but are in general not promising. Some suggestions are made for paying greater attention to richer descriptions of IR system behavior but within smaller, better controlled settings. © 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Duke Scholars
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Information Retrieval
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1386-4564
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Volume
1
Issue
1-2
Start / End Page
7 / 34
Related Subject Headings
- Information & Library Sciences
- 46 Information and computing sciences
- 0807 Library and Information Studies
- 0806 Information Systems
- 0804 Data Format
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Banks, D., Over, P., & Zhang, N. F. (1999). Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data. Information Retrieval, 1(1–2), 7–34. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009984519381
Banks, D., P. Over, and N. F. Zhang. “Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data.” Information Retrieval 1, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1999): 7–34. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009984519381.
Banks D, Over P, Zhang NF. Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data. Information Retrieval. 1999 Jan 1;1(1–2):7–34.
Banks, D., et al. “Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data.” Information Retrieval, vol. 1, no. 1–2, Jan. 1999, pp. 7–34. Scopus, doi:10.1023/a:1009984519381.
Banks D, Over P, Zhang NF. Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data. Information Retrieval. 1999 Jan 1;1(1–2):7–34.
Published In
Information Retrieval
DOI
ISSN
1386-4564
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Volume
1
Issue
1-2
Start / End Page
7 / 34
Related Subject Headings
- Information & Library Sciences
- 46 Information and computing sciences
- 0807 Library and Information Studies
- 0806 Information Systems
- 0804 Data Format