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INDIVIDUALS' assessment: search engine performance

The last section considered the assessment problem from the perspective of a single individual, the browsing user. Now we would like to generalize on this individual performance to attempt to obtain statistically significant observations.

Subsections

• 4.3.1 Underlying assumptions
• 4.3.2 Consensual relevance
• 4.3.3 Traditional evaluation methodologies
• 4.3.4 Basic measures
• 4.3.5 Ordering the \Ret set
• 4.3.6 Normalized recall and precision
• 4.3.7 Multiple retrievals across varying queries
• 4.3.8 One-parameter criteria
• 4.3.9 Test corpora
• 4.3.10 Other measures

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