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Webinar: Result Assessment Tool (RAT): An Open-Source Toolkit for Conducting Studies based on Search Results

Conducting research with results from commercial search engines and other web-based information retrieval systems is challenging due to the “black-box” nature of these systems and limited data access. The Result Assessment Tool (RAT) addresses this by providing an integrated software environment that unifies modules for study design, automated data collection, manual assessment in a dedicated interface, and automated analysis via an extensible classifier framework. The software is designed to assist with various research tasks, including comparative assessments of result quality, investigations of source variety, and content analysis. It emphasizes transparency in methodologies, reproducibility of outcomes, and responsible data collection.

Presenters

Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski
Dirk Lewandowski is Professor for Information Research & Information Retrieval at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), Germany. He is a leading international expert in Information Science, specializing in user behaviour in web search and the analysis of the societal role of search engines.

 

 

 

 

Sebastian Sünkler
Sebastian Sünkler, M.A., is a Research Associate, Research Software Engineer, and lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Digital Society at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Since he was a university student, he has been interested in search engines and information retrieval. Among other projects, he has been working on the Result Assessment Tool. His research focuses on evaluating search engines and the behavior of search engine users.

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