Towards a Living Lab for Information Retrieval Research and Development [chapter]

Leif Azzopardi, Krisztian Balog
2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The notion of having a "living lab" to undertaken evaluations has been proposed by a number of proponents within the field of Information Retrieval (IR). However, what such a living lab might look like and how it might be setup has not been discussed in detail. Living labs have a number of appealing points such as realistic evaluation contexts where tasks are directly linked to user experience and the closer integration of research/academia and development/industry facilitating more efficient
more » ... owledge transfer. However, operationalizing a living lab opens up a number of concerns regarding security, privacy, etc. as well as challenges regarding the design, development and maintenance of the infrastructure required to support such evaluations. Here, we aim to further the discussion on living labs for IR evaluation and propose one possible architecture to create such an evaluation environment. To focus discussion, we put forward a proposal for a living lab on product search tasks within the context of an online shop.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23708-9_5 fatcat:iectszletjbdbm5yca32hrnnfm