1999/07/27 by Scott Nicholson, Nicholson, Scott
Computer Science · #Advanced Text Analysis Techniques #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.3.4 #H.3.5 #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #cs.DL #cs.IR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/9907042
arxiv created 1999/07/27 · openalex publication_date 1999/07/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Because the World Wide Web is a dynamic collection of information, the Web search tools (or "search engines") that index the Web are dynamic. Traditional information retrieval evaluation techniques may not provide reliable results when applied to the Web search tools. This study is the result of ten replications of the classic 1996 Ding and Marchionini Web search tool research. It explores the effects that replication can have on transforming unreliable results from one iteration into replicable and therefore reliable results after multiple iterations.