title: A structured model for evaluation of information retrieval (IR).
abstract: The paper reviews methods of evaluation of information retrieval (IR), in particular relevance (recall and precision) based approaches and their limitations and proposes a new model of IR which emphasizes the difference between the IR process and the technical IR system supporting the process. The model is proposed as basis for the structured evaluation of the IR process, and the planning, analysis and comparison of results of experiments using different methodologies.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kagolovsky
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Möhr
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013597:Systems Analysis