[Ltg] HAIL Seminar (1st July): Paul Thomas, CSIRO ICT Centre

[Andrew Lampert]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/


Title:          Evaluating Information Retrieval in Context

Speaker:        Paul Thomas
                Postdoctoral Fellow
                Information Engineering Laboratory
                CSIRO ICT Centre

Date:           Tuesday 1st July 2008 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO ICT Centre,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

Established evaluation methodologies for information retrieval are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings.  We have implemented a comparison tool which support this task.  By offering a working search interface the tool permits study of real information needs as they occur, uses the documents actually available at the time of the search, and records judgements taking into account the instantaneous needs of the searcher.  We report experiments, to validate the tool and explore potential biases, and ongoing and future applications.


Short resume

Paul is a postdoctoral fellow at the CSIRO ICT Centre, working largely on problems in distributed and personal information retrieval. He completed his PhD, at the ANU, earlier this year.

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