Five methods of evaluating search engines are described: a government-sponsored test bed, analysts' reports, a metric called MRR, a new Google service, and the use of best practices.
Dr. Marcia Kerchner of MITRE Corporation will tell how the IRS improved the user search experience through usability studies, document engineering, query enhancement, and results improvement.
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder
for the September 5 roundtable "Migrating metadata to the Semantic Web." Its purpose is to orient you to the
roundtable context and help you understand the concepts and tools discussed. This session takes a big-picture view of the topic and is designed for the layman, not the computer scientist.
Barbara McGlamery of Time Interactive will tell how her team used a Semantic Web standard called RDF (Resource Description Framework) to add new kinds of relationships to enhance search and navigation on the Entertainment Weekly Web site.
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