DIRECTions: Design and specification of an IR evaluation infrastructure

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7488 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-99

  Agosti, Maristella ^a   Di Buccio, Emanuele ^a   Ferro, Nicola ^a   Masiero, Ivano ^a   Peruzzo, Simone ^a   Silvello, Gianmaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INFORMATION ACCESS; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SHARED DATA; TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENT; TRACKING PERFORMANCE;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPECIFICATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84867656019     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33247-0_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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