An Information Visualization Tool for the Interactive Component-Based Evaluation of Search Engines

Abstract

In this paper, we present an InfoVis tool based on SanKey diagrams for the exploration of large combinatorial combinations of IR components -the Grid of Points (GoP).The goal of this tool is to ease the comprehension of the behavior of single IR components within fully functioning off-the-shelf IR systems without recurring to complex statistical tools. In order to assess the quality of the proposed SanKey-based InfoVis tool we conduceted an initial user study that led to interesting conclusions, yet to be validated in a future and more comprehensive study.

Proposing a New Combined Indicator for Measuring Search Engine Performance and Evaluating Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Bing Search Engines based on Combined Indicator

“…Yang et al (2020) proposed a performance evaluation index of intelligent search engine service with five categories: (1) information search efficiency index, (2) information search effect index, (3) information search support index, (4) information search function index, and (5) user satisfaction index. Rocco and Silvello (2020) used InfoVis tool with SanKey diagrams for the search engines interactive component-based assessment. Alashti et al (2022) developed an automatic component-based strategy and measured Parsijoo, Yooz, Google, and Bing based on Normalizer, Tokenizer, Query expansion, and Spell-Checker modules, showing the superiority of Google and Bing over ParsiJoo and Youz.…”