Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback

Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen

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Abstract

Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user feedback for search engine evaluation provides a cost and time effective manner of addressing this problem. Web search engines can use human evaluation of search results without the expense of human evaluators. An additional advantage of this approach is the availability of real time data regarding system performance. Wecapture user relevance judgments actions such as print, save and bookmark, sending these actions and the corresponding document identifiers to a central server via a client application. We use this implicit feedback to calculate performance metrics, such as precision. We can calculate an overall system performance metric based on a collection of weighted metrics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Pages649-650
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2005 - Salvador, Brazil
Duration: 15 Aug 200519 Aug 2005

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2005
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CitySalvador
Period15/08/0519/08/05

Keywords

  • implicit user feedback
  • search engine evaluation

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