Re: measure result set quality

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Hostetter
: As a first approach I will evaluate (manually :( ) hits that are out of the : intersection set for every query in each system. Anyway I will keep FYI: LucidWorks has a Relevancy Workbench tool that serves as a simple UI designed explicitly for the purpose of comparing the result sets of from

Re: measure result set quality

2013-10-21 Thread Alvaro Cabrerizo
Thanks for your valuable answers. As a first approach I will evaluate (manually :( ) hits that are out of the intersection set for every query in each system. Anyway I will keep searching for literature in the field. Regards. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Doug Turnbull

Re: measure result set quality

2013-10-20 Thread Furkan KAMACI
Let's assume that you have keywords to search and different configurations for indexing. A/B testing is one of techniques that you can use as like Erick mentioned. If you want to have an automated comparison and do not have a oracle for A/B testing there is another way. If you have an ideal

Re: measure result set quality

2013-10-20 Thread Doug Turnbull
That's exactly what we advocate for in our Solr work. We call in Test Driven Relevancy. We work closely with content experts to help build collaboration around search quality. (disclaimer, yes we build a product around this) but the advice still stands regardless.

Re: measure result set quality

2013-10-18 Thread Erick Erickson
bq: How do you compare the quality of your search result in order to decide which schema is better? Well, that's actually a hard problem. There's the various TREC data, but that's a generic solution and most every individual application of this generic thing called search has its own version of