References & tools

Print references

William Y. Arms (2000) book titled Digital Libraries contains two chapters devoted to information retrieval, including some discussion of evaluation issues.

The Journal of Information Retrieval contains articles about information retrieval evaluation such as those written by Reid (2000) and Melucci (1999).

Online references

A paper related to information retrieval evaluation presented by Wu and Sonnenwald in 1999 at the annual conference of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) is available online at: http://pnclink.org/annual/annual1999/1999pdf/wu-mm.pdf.

An overview of what information retrieval is and evaluation methods associated with it can viewed at: http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch13node4.html.

A general resource about information retrieval is at: http://www.acm.org/sigir/resources.html

Online instruments, tools, guidelines, etc.

Some useful guidelines and tools can be found at the Text Retrieval Conference Home Page (TREC) at http://trec.nist.gov/.