Provides an overview and instruction on the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems with users.

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and

Provides a comprehensive overview of the topic. It shows how online evaluation is used for controlled experiments, segmenting them into experiment designs that

Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for

Since user study design has been widely applied in search interactions and information retrieval (IR) systems evaluation studies, a deep reflection and meta-eva