Towards Information Retrieval Evaluation over Web Archives Export

@inproceedings{Costa09, abstract = {We present the first overview of a web archive user profile and the searching technology that supports it. Most web archives only support URL search and just a few provide full-text search in response to users' expectations. Their technology is essentially based on web search engines, which ignore the temporal dimension of collections. As consequence, the quality of results is poor. We suggest the creation of an initiative for information retrieval evaluation, meeting the needs of web archives. We believe this initiative would foster research in web archives, in resemblance with what other initiatives achieved in their domains.}, author = {Costa, Miguel and Silva, M\'{a}rio J.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation}, citeulike-article-id = {5979235}, editor = {Geva, Shlomo and Kamps, Jaap and Peters, Carol and Sakai, Tetsuya and Trotman, Andrew and Voorhees, Ellen}, keywords = {archives, evaluation, temporal, web}, location = {Boston, USA}, month = {July}, pages = {37}, posted-at = {2009-10-21 11:05:53}, priority = {5}, publisher = {IR Publications, Amsterdam}, title = {Towards Information Retrieval Evaluation over Web Archives}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - Costa09 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5979235 N2 - We present the first overview of a web archive user profile and the searching technology that supports it. Most web archives only support URL search and just a few provide full-text search in response to users’ expectations. Their technology is essentially based on web search engines, which ignore the temporal dimension of collections. As consequence, the quality of results is poor. We suggest the creation of an initiative for information retrieval evaluation, meeting the needs of web archives. We believe this initiative would foster research in web archives, in resemblance with what other initiatives achieved in their domains. CY - Boston, USA EP - 37 TI - Towards Information Retrieval Evaluation over Web Archives PB - IR Publications, Amsterdam T2 - Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation SP - 37 KW - archives KW - evaluation KW - temporal KW - web AU - Costa, Miguel AU - Silva, Mário A2 - Geva, Shlomo A2 - Kamps, Jaap A2 - Peters, Carol A2 - Sakai, Tetsuya A2 - Trotman, Andrew A2 - Voorhees, Ellen PY - 2009/07// ER -