Journal article
From Evaluating to Forecasting Performance: How to Turn Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Recommender Systems into Predictive Sciences (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 17442)
Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Gregory Grefenstette, Joseph A Konstan, Pablo Castells, Elizabeth M Daly, Thierry Declerck, Michael D Ekstrand, Werner Geyer, Julio Gonzalo, Tsvi Kuflik, Krister Linden, Bernardo Magnini, Jian-Yun Nie, Raffaele Perego, Shapira Bracha, Ian Soboroff, Nava Tintarev, Verspoor Karin, Martijn C Willemsen Show all
Dagstuhl Manifestos | Schloss Dagstuhl | Published : 2018
Abstract
We describe the state-of-the-art in performance modeling and prediction for Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Recommender Systems (RecSys) along with its shortcomings and strengths. We present a framework for further research, identifying five major problem areas: understanding measures, performance analysis, making underlying assumptions explicit, identifying application features determining performance, and the development of prediction models describing the relationship between assumptions, features and resulting performance.