[Tracker] Tools to evaluate Tracker performances...

[Diego Rondini <panda84 inwind it>]

Hi all!

I would like to give you some material me and my group developed during 
our College Course of Information Retrieval. The work is about desktop 
search performance evaluation, and, in our case, Tracker performances.
We developed a little software (GPL Licence, even if not specified in 
the source code) that is able to automatically submit several queries 
(taken from the TimeRevised collection) to tracker-search. The output is 
a file that Trec_Eval is able to get in input.

Here you are the material, the programs with their source code, and 
several performance analysis reports of Tracker (unfortunately only in 
Italian).
http://www.dei.unipd.it/~rondinid/ir/
Here you are some documents about what the work is about, and about the 
usage of Trec_Eval (always in Italian):
http://ims.dei.unipd.it/members/agosti/teaching/2006-07/ir/
Some infos about Trec:
http://ir.iit.edu/~dagr/cs529/files/project_files/trec_eval_desc.htm
http://trec.nist.gov/trec_eval/


During the following weeks I'll be a bit busy, but if you have any 
question about usage and so on don't mind to ask me! When I'll have a 
little free time I'll answer as soon as possible!

Bye, bye, and thank you for your great work in OSS!
Diego


P.S.: sorry about my "poor" english. :-)