A Progressive Visual Analytics Tool for Incremental Experimental Evaluation
This is an incremental improvement for researchers and practitioners in information retrieval, speeding up performance assessment.
The paper tackles the problem of slow and resource-intensive evaluation of information retrieval models by introducing AVIATOR, a visual analytics tool that enables continuous, progressive evaluation, reducing both human and computational resource consumption.
This paper presents a visual tool, AVIATOR, that integrates the progressive visual analytics paradigm in the IR evaluation process. This tool serves to speed-up and facilitate the performance assessment of retrieval models enabling a result analysis through visual facilities. AVIATOR goes one step beyond the common "compute wait visualize" analytics paradigm, introducing a continuous evaluation mechanism that minimizes human and computational resource consumption.