uk.ac.gla.terrier.evaluation
Class AdhocEvaluation

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.gla.terrier.evaluation.Evaluation
      uk.ac.gla.terrier.evaluation.AdhocEvaluation

Direct Known Subclasses:

AdhocFullQueryEvaluation

public class AdhocEvaluation
extends Evaluation

Performs the evaluation for TREC's tasks, except the named page task. The evaluation measures include the mean average precision and other measures such as precision at 10, precision at 10%, and so on....

Version:

$Revision: 1.33 $

Author:

Gianni Amati, Ben He

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.evaluation.Evaluation

Evaluation.Record

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.evaluation.Evaluation

qrels

Constructor Summary

AdhocEvaluation()

Method Summary

void	evaluate(java.lang.String resultFilename) Evaluates the given result file.
void	initialise() Initialise variables.
void	writeEvaluationResult(java.io.PrintWriter out) Output the evaluation result to the specific file.
void	writeEvaluationResultOfEachQuery(java.lang.String resultEvalFilename) Output the evaluation result of each query to the specific file.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.evaluation.Evaluation

writeEvaluationResult, writeEvaluationResult

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AdhocEvaluation

public AdhocEvaluation()

Method Detail

initialise

public void initialise()

Initialise variables.

evaluate

public void evaluate(java.lang.String resultFilename)

Evaluates the given result file.

Specified by:

evaluate in class Evaluation

Parameters:

resultFilename - String the filename of the result file to evaluate.

writeEvaluationResultOfEachQuery

public void writeEvaluationResultOfEachQuery(java.lang.String resultEvalFilename)

Output the evaluation result of each query to the specific file.

Specified by:

writeEvaluationResultOfEachQuery in class Evaluation

Parameters:

resultEvalFilename - String the name of the file in which to save the evaluation results.

writeEvaluationResult

public void writeEvaluationResult(java.io.PrintWriter out)

Output the evaluation result to the specific file.

Specified by:

writeEvaluationResult in class Evaluation

Parameters:

out - java.io.PrintWriter the stream to which the results are printed.