Reproducible experiments on lexical and temporal feedback for tweet search

Jinfeng Rao, Jimmy Lin, Miles Efron

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Abstract

“Evaluation as a service” (EaaS) is a new methodology for community-wide evaluations where an API provides the only point of access to the collection for completing the evaluation task. Two important advantages of this model are that it enables reproducible IR experiments and encourages sharing of pluggable open-source components. In this paper, we illustrate both advantages by providing open-source implementations of lexical and temporal feedback techniques for tweet search built on the TREC Microblog API. For the most part, we are able to reproduce results reported in previous papers and confirm their general findings. However, experiments on new test collections and additional analyses provide a more nuanced look at the results and highlight issues not discussed in previous studies, particularly the large variances in effectiveness associated with training/test splits.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Proceedings
EditorsAllan Hanbury, Andreas Rauber, Gabriella Kazai, Norbert Fuhr
PublisherSpringer
Pages755-767
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783319163536
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event37th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2015 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: Mar 29 2015Apr 2 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9022
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other37th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2015
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna,
Period3/29/154/2/15

Keywords

  • Evaluation as a service
  • Search API
  • TREC Microblog

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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