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Reproduce and Improve: An Evolutionary Approach to Select a Few Good Topics for Information Retrieval Evaluation

Effectiveness evaluation of information retrieval systems by means of a test collection is a widely used methodology. However, it is rather expensive in terms of resources, time, and money; therefore, many researchers have proposed methods for a …

Effectiveness Evaluation with a Subset of Topics: A Practical Approach

Several researchers have proposed to reduce the number of topics used in TREC-like initiatives. One research direction that has been pursued is what is the optimal topic subset of a given cardinality that evaluates the systems/runs in the most …