Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections

Imhof, Melanie; Braschler, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23

Publication type:	Conference paper
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Title:	Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections
Authors:	Imhof, Melanie Braschler, Martin
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23
Proceedings:	Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Editors of the parent work:	Mothe, Josiane Savoy, Jacques Kamps, Jaap Pinel-Sauvagnat, Karen Jones, Gareth San Juan, Eric Capellato, Linda Ferro, Nicola
Page(s):	241
Pages to:	247
Conference details:	6th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2015), Toulouse, France, 8-11 September 2015
Issue Date:	2015
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Series volume:	9283
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Cham
ISBN:	978-3-319-24027-5
Language:	English
Subjects:	IE; INIT; Datalab; Collection complexity; Modality categorization; Evaluation campaigns
Subject (DDC):	020: Library and information sciences
Abstract:	Objective evaluation of effectiveness is a major topic in the field of information retrieval (IR), as emphasized by the numerous evaluation campaigns in this area. The increasing pervasiveness of information has lead to a large variety of IR application scenarios that involve different information types (modalities), heterogeneous documents and context-enriched queries. In this paper, we argue that even though the complexity of academic test collections has increased over the years, they are still too structurally simple in comparison to operational collections in real-world applications. Furthermore, research has brought up retrieval methods for very specific modalities, such as ratings, geographical coordinates and timestamps. However, it is still unclear how to systematically incorporate new modalities in IR systems. We therefore propose a categorization of modalities that not only allows analyzing the complexity of a collection but also helps to generalize methods to entire modality categories instead of being specific for a single modality. Moreover, we discuss how such a complex collection can methodically be built for the usage in an evaluation campaign.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/4202
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
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Imhof, M., & Braschler, M. (2015). Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections [Conference paper]. In J. Mothe, J. Savoy, J. Kamps, K. Pinel-Sauvagnat, G. Jones, E. San Juan, L. Capellato, & N. Ferro (Eds.), Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (pp. 241–247). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23

Imhof, M. and Braschler, M. (2015) ‘Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections’, in J. Mothe et al. (eds) Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Cham: Springer, pp. 241–247. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23.

M. Imhof and M. Braschler, “Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections,” in Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2015, pp. 241–247. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23.

IMHOF, Melanie und Martin BRASCHLER, 2015. Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections. In: Josiane MOTHE, Jacques SAVOY, Jaap KAMPS, Karen PINEL-SAUVAGNAT, Gareth JONES, Eric SAN JUAN, Linda CAPELLATO und Nicola FERRO (Hrsg.), Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Conference paper. Cham: Springer. 2015. S. 241–247. ISBN 978-3-319-24027-5

Imhof, Melanie, and Martin Braschler. 2015. “Are Test Collections “Real”? : Mirroring Real-World Complexity in IR Test Collections.” Conference paper. In Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, edited by Josiane Mothe, Jacques Savoy, Jaap Kamps, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Gareth Jones, Eric San Juan, Linda Capellato, and Nicola Ferro, 241–47. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23.

Imhof, Melanie, and Martin Braschler. “Are Test Collections “Real”? : Mirroring Real-World Complexity in IR Test Collections.” Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, edited by Josiane Mothe et al., Springer, 2015, pp. 241–47, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23.