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STAIRS redux: Thoughts on the STAIRS evaluation, ten years after

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The test of retrieval effectiveness performed on IBM's STAIRS and reported in Communications of the ACM ten years ago, continues to be cited frequently in the information retrieval literature. The reasons for the study's continuing pertinence to today's research are discussed, and the political, legal, and commercial aspects of the study are presented. In addition, the method of calculating recall that was used in the STAIRS study is discussed in some detail, especially how it reduces the five major types of uncertainty in recall estimations. It is also suggested that this method of recall estimation may serve as the basis for recall estimations that might be truly comparable between systems. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • David C. Blair, 1996. "STAIRS redux: Thoughts on the STAIRS evaluation, ten years after," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 47(1), pages 4-22, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:47:y:1996:i:1:p:4-22
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199601)47:13.0.CO;2-3
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    1. Hoppenbrouwers, J.J.A.C. & Paijmans, J.J., 2000. "Invading the fortress : How to beseige reinforced information bunkers," Other publications TiSEM 62e33d30-6377-48c8-9bdf-b, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    2. Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd & Abhijit Chattaraj & Justin Zobel, 2006. "Methodologies for Evaluation of Note-Based Music-Retrieval Systems," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 18(3), pages 339-347, August.

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