An InfoVis Tool for Interactive Component-Based Evaluation
This work addresses the challenge for information retrieval researchers and practitioners in analyzing component interactions, but it is incremental as it applies existing visualization techniques to a specific domain.
The authors tackled the problem of understanding individual IR components within complex systems by developing an InfoVis tool based on Sankey diagrams for exploring large combinatorial combinations, resulting in a tool that eases comprehension without requiring complex statistical tools.
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.