Lessons from BMIR-J2: A test collection for Japanese IR systems

Tsuyoshi Kitani; Haruo Kimoto; Toshikazu Fukushima; Tetsuya Sakai; Hiroshi Tsuruoka; Yasushi Ogawa; Ikuo Keshi; Kunio Matsui; Takenobu Tokunaga; Hidekazu Nakawatase; Tetsuya Ishikawa; Jun Toyoura; Yoshihiro Ueda; Teru Agata

Lessons from BMIR-J2: A test collection for Japanese IR systems

Tsuyoshi Kitani^*, Haruo Kimoto, Toshikazu Fukushima, Tetsuya Sakai, Hiroshi Tsuruoka, Yasushi Ogawa, Ikuo Keshi, Kunio Matsui, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hidekazu Nakawatase, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Jun Toyoura, Yoshihiro Ueda, Teru Agata

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Abstract

BMIR-J2 is the first complete Japanese test collection available for use in evaluating information retrieval systems. It contains sixty queries and the IDs of 5080 newspaper articles in the fields of economics and engineering. The queries are classified into five categories, based on the functions the system is likely to use to interpret them correctly and retrieve relevant texts. This collection has two levels of relevance, topically relevant and partially relevant. Also discussed are design issues such as collection types and size. This collection and the principles derived in designing it should be helpful in the future development of new test collections.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	345-346
Number of pages	2
Journal	SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
Publication status	Published - 1998
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1998 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'98) - Melbourne, Vic., Aust Duration: 1998 Aug 24 → 1998 Aug 28

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