Visual analytics for information retrieval evaluation (VAIRË 2015)

Measuring is a key to scientific progress. This is particularly true for research concerning complex systems, whether natural or human-built. The tutorial introduced basic and intermediate concepts about lab-based evaluation of information retrieval systems, its pitfalls, and shortcomings and it complemented them with a recent and innovative angle to evaluation: the application of methodologies and tools coming from the Visual Analytics (VA) domain for better interacting, understanding, and exploring the experimental results and Information Retrieval (IR) system behaviour. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.