Overview of EIREX 2011: Crowdsourcing
Juli\'an Urbano, Diego Mart\'in, M\'onica Marrero, Jorge Morato

TL;DR
EIREX 2011 is an educational experiment at the University Carlos III of Madrid aimed at teaching undergraduate IR courses through hands-on experimentation, creating a test collection, and fostering collaboration among universities.
Contribution
This paper presents the design, implementation, and analysis of the EIREX 2011 IR education experiment, emphasizing its role in teaching and resource creation.
Findings
Created a reliable test collection for IR education
Demonstrated the effectiveness of hands-on IR teaching methods
Encouraged university collaboration in IR resource development
Abstract
The second Information Retrieval Education through EXperimentation track (EIREX 2011) was run at the University Carlos III of Madrid, during the 2011 spring semester. EIREX 2011 is the second in a series of experiments designed to foster new Information Retrieval (IR) education methodologies and resources, with the specific goal of teaching undergraduate IR courses from an experimental perspective. For an introduction to the motivation behind the EIREX experiments, see the first sections of [Urbano et al., 2011a]. For information on other editions of EIREX and related data, see the website at http://ir.kr.inf.uc3m.es/eirex/. The EIREX series have the following goals: a) to help students get a view of the Information Retrieval process as they would find it in a real-world scenario, either industrial or academic; b) to make students realize the importance of laboratory experiments in…
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Taxonomy
TopicsInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior · Data Quality and Management · Library Science and Information Systems
