Autoeval: An evaluation methodology for evaluating query suggestions using query logs

MD Albakour, U Kruschwitz, N Nanas, Y Kim… - Advances in Information …, 2011 - Springer
Advances in Information Retrieval: 33rd European Conference on IR Research …, 2011Springer
User evaluations of search engines are expensive and not easy to replicate. The problem is
even more pronounced when assessing adaptive search systems, for example system-
generated query modification suggestions that can be derived from past user interactions
with a search engine. Automatically predicting the performance of different modification
suggestion models before getting the users involved is therefore highly desirable. AutoEval
is an evaluation methodology that assesses the quality of query modifications generated by …
Abstract
User evaluations of search engines are expensive and not easy to replicate. The problem is even more pronounced when assessing adaptive search systems, for example system-generated query modification suggestions that can be derived from past user interactions with a search engine. Automatically predicting the performance of different modification suggestion models before getting the users involved is therefore highly desirable. AutoEval is an evaluation methodology that assesses the quality of query modifications generated by a model using the query logs of past user interactions with the system. We present experimental results of applying this methodology to different adaptive algorithms which suggest that the predicted quality of different algorithms is in line with user assessments. This makes AutoEval a suitable evaluation framework for adaptive interactive search engines.
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