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Overview of the personalized and collaborative information retrieval (PIR) track at FIRE-2011

Ganguly, Debasis orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0050-7138, Leveling, Johannes orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0603-4191, Curtis, Keith, Li, Wei B. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7347-3501 and Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 (2011) Overview of the personalized and collaborative information retrieval (PIR) track at FIRE-2011. In: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FiRE) 2011 Workshop, 2-4 Dec 2011, Bombay, India.

Abstract
The Personalized and collaborative Information Retrieval (PIR) track at FIRE 2011 was organized with an aim to extend standard information retrieval (IR) ad-hoc test collection design to facilitate research on personalized and collaborative IR by collecting additional meta-information during the topic (query) development process. A controlled query generation process through task-based activities with activity logging was used for each topic developer to construct the final list of topics. The standard ad-hoc collection is thus accompanied by a new set of thematically related topics and the associated log information. We believe this can better simulate a real-world search scenario and encourage mining user information from the logs to improve IR effectiveness. A set of 25 TREC formatted topics and the associated metadata of activity logs were released for the participants to use. In this paper we illustrate the data construction phase in detail and also outline two simple ways of using the additional information from the logs to improve retrieval effectiveness.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:No
Uncontrolled Keywords:controlled query; ad-hoc collection
Subjects:Computer Science > Information storage and retrieval systems
Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Published in: Working Notes of the Forum for Information Retrieval (FIRE 2011). .
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland
ID Code:16896
Deposited On:17 Apr 2012 14:55 by Gareth Jones . Last Modified 07 Oct 2021 12:38
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