What deliberately degrading search quality tells us about discount functions

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1107-1108

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Jones, Timothy ^b   Hawking, David ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metrics; Result set manipulation

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT FUNCTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; METRICS; NON-RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RESULT SET MANIPULATION; SEARCH QUALITY; USER EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80052129492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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