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Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval

30th European Conference for Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008)
March 30, 2008, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Workshop Program

9.00-9.05 Welcome and Opening
Mark Sanderson
9.05-9.50

Invited Talk
Evaluation: From Traditional Search to Exploratory Search
Tetsuya Sakai

9.50-10.30 Session 1: Evaluating the User Viewpoint
9.50-10.15 Towards the Evaluation of Literature Based Discovery Systems
Ulises Cervi�o Beresi, Mark Baillie and Ian Ruthven
10.15-10.30 Changing the Subject - One Way of Measuring Trust in Information
Jussi Karlgren
10.30-11.00

BREAK

11.00-11.20 Session 2: Experimental Collections for Web Evaluation
11.00-11.10 A large Time-Aware Web Graph
Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini and Sebastiano Vigna
11.10-11.20 Compressed Collections for Simulated Crawling
Alessio Orlandi and Sebastiano Vigna
11.20-12.10 Session 3: Evaluation Challenges for New tasks
11.20-11.45 To Separate or Not to Separate: Reflections about Current GIR Practice
Nuno Cardoso and Diana Santos
11.45-12.10 Dynamic Focused Retrieval of XML Documents and its Evaluation
Toshiyuki Shimizu and Masatoshi Yoshikawa
12.10-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.40 Invited Talk
Evaluation of the Search Functionality of Enterprise Web Portals
Martin Braschler
14.40-15.30 Session 3b: Evaluation Challenges for New Tasks
14.40-15.05 Large-Scale Interactive Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems - the iCLEF Flickr Challenge
Javier Artiles, Emma Barker, Paul Clough, Julio Gonzalo, Jussi Karlgren, Victor Peinado
15.05-15.30 How Many Experts?
Gianluca Demartini
15.30-16.00 BREAK
16.00-17.15 Session 4: Alternative Evaluation Methods
16.00-16.25 Visual Vectora: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Cumulated Gain-based Retrieval Experiments
Kalervo J�rvelin, Illka V�h�m�tt�nen, Heikki Keskustalo
16.25-16.50 Document Accessibility: Evaluating the Access Afforded to a Document by the Retrieval System
Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay
16.50-17.15 Angle Seeking as a Scenario for Task-Based Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
Emma J. Barker, Joe Polifroni, Marilyn Walker and Robert Gaizauskas
17.15-17.30 Discussion and Future Directions