Evaluation Methods for Rankings of Facetvalues for Faceted Search

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • P. Forner
  • J. Gonzalo
  • J. Kekäläinen
  • M. Lalmas
  • M. de Rijke
Book title Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
Book subtitle second international conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-22, 2011: proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783642237072
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642237089
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 2nd international conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2011
Pages (from-to) 131-136
Publisher Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We introduce two metrics aimed at evaluating systems that select facetvalues for a faceted search interface. Facetvalues are the values of meta-data fields in semi-structured data and are commonly used to refine queries. It is often the case that there are more facetvalues than can be displayed to a user and thus a selection has to be made. Our metrics evaluate these selections based on binary relevant assessments for the documents in a collection. Both our metrics are based on Normalized Discounted Cumulated Gain, an often used Information Retrieval metric.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23708-9_15
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