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Bias and Fairness in Effectiveness Evaluation by Means of Network Analysis and Mixture Models

Information retrieval effectiveness evaluation is often carried out by means of test collections. Many works investigated possible sources of bias in such an approach. We propose a systematic approach to identify bias and its causes, and to remove …

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 …