Evaluation of Search Methods on Community Documents

Abstract

Searching for domain-specific information on the web is tough. Community documents are therefore made searchable with a dedicated search platform. Search Methods employed on a document corpora are often evaluated over the aspect of efficiency and not focusing on the often-overlooked user experience. In the paper, we present an evaluation of search methods over domain-specific document corpora over search methods. The document corpora are represented in RDF as well as free-text. We describe the search methods as well as present the evaluation environment prepared. Moreover, we present the result of the user study to understand the experience of a user with the search methods.